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Husking Corn

Date: 1903
Description: Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground...
Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Photograph

Breaking Log Jam on Chippewa River

Date: 1903
Description: Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C...
Photograph

Berry's Landing

Date: 1903
Description: View from shoreline towards a man in a rowboat at Berry's Landing, along the rocks opposite. Caption at bottom: "In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin Ri...
Photograph

Devil's Post Office

Date: 1903
Description: Devil's Post Office, Mirror Lake. Miriam Bennett is inside of the Devil's Post Office looking out.
Photograph

Suffragists Wearing Bloomers

Date: 1903
Description: Ada James (kneeling, far right), of Richland Center, Wisconsin, with friends Mrs. Lucille Tappan Moreland of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. G.B. Longan, autho...
Photograph

Waiting in line for Circus Tickets

Date: 1903
Description: People stand in line to purchase tickets at a Barnum & Bailey Circus ticket wagon near the main tent.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a ...
Photograph

Lumber Railroad Crew

Date: 1903
Description: A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R...
Photograph

Plano Mowers at Cork Fairgrounds

Date: 1903
Description: Two boys and a group of men inspect Plano mowers at a fairgrounds in Cork, Ireland. At the time, Plano was one of the brand names sold by International Har...
Photograph

CM&StP Railroad Locomotive

Date: 1903
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th...
Photograph

Young Men Sitting on a Fence

Date: 1903
Description: Group watching a University of Wisconsin football game (?) from a fence. Most are sitting on top, a few are standing and two men are peeking through the fe...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Cheerleader

Date: 1903
Description: A male cheerleader with megaphone leading the crowd at a University of Wisconsin football (?) game. The band performs at the front of the crowd.
Photograph

Andrew and Gjertrud Dahl's Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary

Date: 1903
Description: Andrew Dahl and Gjertrud Dahl's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration, which was robably held at the parsonage at Mt. Morris. The group includes the...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Broadcast Fertilizer Sowers Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier broadcast fertlizer sowers manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchase...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Grain Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier Grain Drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased by Internati...
Book or Pamphlet

Hoosier Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Hoosier corn planters and drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company. The company was later purchased ...
Photograph

Building a Wood Block Road

Date: 1903
Description: Men working on a wood block road.
Book or Pamphlet

Police Officer

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of a stern-looking, uniformed police officer with arms crossed.
Book or Pamphlet

Canoeists

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of two men rowing a boat.

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