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Victorian Era Postcard

Date: 11 17 1909
Description: Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal...
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International Harvester Postcard — Algiers

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of a harvesting scene in Algiers. Includes a color illustration of a horse-drawn grain binder. Caption reads: "Algiers — In this far off country o...
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International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
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International Harvester Postcard — Russia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustrations of an International Harvester self-rake reaper pulled by two camels in Russia. Caption: "Russia — Camels are used as dr...
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International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
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International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of farmers operating grain binders in Mexico. Includes a color illustration of two grain binders pulled by oxen or cattle. Original caption reads:...
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International Harvester Postcard — Romania

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard featuring a color illustration of men in suits and farm laborers in a field next to a grain binder drawn by four oxen. Original caption reads: "Ro...
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Pheasant Branch Hotel or Stamm House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of the Pheasant Branch Hotel or Stamm House. Men are sitting on the porch near the front door. A sign above the door reads, in part: "J. Yo.....
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Camping with the International Scout

Date: 1972
Description: Color advertising photograph of two men setting up camp in a wooded area. The men have two 1972 International Scouts, one a 4x4 with the top removed (foreg...
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1977 Scout Traveler with Terry Camper in the Mountains

Date: 1977
Description: Color advertising photograph of a 1977 International Scout Traveler pickup with Terry camper set against a mountainous backdrop.
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Ronald Reagan speaking to the Wisconsin Manufacturers' Association

Date: 1970
Description: Ronald Reagan speaking to a group of business people at a meeting of the Wisconsin Manufacturers' Association.
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Welles as Dreedle

Date: 1970
Description: Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper...
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EAA's Paul Poberezny

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Description: Paul H. Poberezny, founder and former president of the Experimental Aviation Association and the winner of numerous aviation awards and titles. Poberezny a...
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Northwest Airlines Anniversary

Date: 07 15 1997
Description: Northwest Airlines celebrated the 50th anniversary of its around-the-globe service to the Orient at Minneapolis Airport in 1997. For this event the airlin...
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World War II B-25

Date: 04 18 1992
Description: "Skunkie," a restored B-25 bomber similar those flown in the famous Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. At the 50th anniversary celebration of the raid, "Skunki...
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First Women ATC Trainees

Date: 09 1977
Description: The first class of female Air Force jet pilots posing with a supersonic T-38 Talon training aircraft at Randolph Air Force Base. Their training was part of...
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Apollo 17 Lunar Rover

Date: 09 1972
Description: Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt practice operating the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) in preparation for the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. They ...
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First Wisconsin Aviator

Date: 1910
Description: The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ...
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Helicopter Hero Scott Alwin

Date: 1968
Description: Helicopter pilot Scott Alwin, a native of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with his UH-1 ("Huey"). Alwin spent five tours of duty in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972, se...
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Manchester's, Inc., Second Floor Hat Department

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Hat department on Manchester's, Inc., second floor. A sign in the foreground, perhaps on a window, reads in reverse: "Dresses."

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