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Photograph

Loading Rock from Quarry

Date: 1894
Description: Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car.
Print

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Print

Milwaukee Harvester Company Advertising Card

Date: 1894
Description: Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a tree branch.
Print

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1894
Description: Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a little girl holding a small bouquet of wildflowers.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Buckeye harvesting machines manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company. Cover features an illustration of a man, woman,...
Photograph

Waukesha Scoot

Date: 1894
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot.
Book or Pamphlet

"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous" Field Tests

Date: 1894
Description: Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1894
Description: Sanborn Map of the Illinois Steel Co. Bay View Works in Milwaukee.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Buckeye Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for Buckeye harvesting machines manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company. Features an illustration of three boys by ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Catalog cover featuring illustrations along with the text: "The Foreign Commisioners Visit the Northwest, and Learn Why Bonanza Farming Pays." At the top i...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration of a man forging a chain on an anvil. He is wearing a winged helmet with the word "Progress" on the front. The c...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Co. Card Front and Back

Date: 1894
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration titled: "Young Canada, 'I wonder what they are doing on the other side,'" and "Merry Christmas." A young boy wea...
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Front cover with color illustration reads: "The Search Light of Public Experience Reveals the Champion." To the right, on a pedestal, is the figure of a ma...
Book or Pamphlet

The New Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Cover features a ribbon reading "The New Champion" against an ornate framed background of green and embossed gold in. Two round frames have a silhouette ag...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1894
Description: Sanborn map of Milwaukee, with the Milwaukee River on the left, and Water Street in the center. There are two iron draw bridges over the river.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Grafton

Date: 1894
Description: A Sanborn map of Grafton.

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