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Belle Case La Follette Addressing Farmers

Date: 1915
Description: Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent...
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Per-Ola Land Company

Date: 1915
Description: Men in hats and coats stand in exhibit booth for the Per-Ola Land Company.
Photograph

Agricultural Extension Department Library

Date: 1915
Description: Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture from Car

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Holden of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department expounds the benefits of alfalfa from the back seat of a car.
Document

Vilas Flying Certificate

Date: 1915
Description: Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin...
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette Speaking Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., wearing a black dress and hat and speaking outdoors at an unidentified location.
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Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder Car

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of Robert Taylor's car, which he used for his work as the Milwaukee Journal's first photographer. A sign displayed across the spare tire r...
Print

State Fair Stamp

Date: 1915
Description: Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume...
Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...
Photograph

Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Men Reading Agricultural Education Material

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural...
Photograph

Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
Photograph

Home Canning

Date: 1915
Description: A woman wearing a dress and bonnet is using a wire potato masher to remove a jar of peaches from a vat of boiling water. Several jars of canned goods are s...
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Woman with Home Canning Equipment

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Buckley, wearing a dress, apron, and bonnet, is standing next to a table where equipment used for the home canning of agricultural produce is displaye...
Photograph

Man Sitting on Porch

Date: 1915
Description: View from yard of man sitting and reading a newspaper or magazine in a rocking chair on the porch of a house.
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is sitting, holding a book; the other two are standing on either side ...
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Charles Richman, Mary Maurice, James Morrison, and Norma Talmadge in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Harrison (played by Mary Maurice) solemnly presents the family sword to her son John Harrison (Charles Richman, on the left) in a scene still for the ...
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Harry S. Northrup, Lucille Hamill, Louise Beaudet, James Lackaye, Norma Talmadge, Charles Richman, and L. Rodgers Lytton in a scene still.

Date: 1915
Description: After the invasion of the United States, Americans are threatened by the enemy leader Mr. Emanon (played by L. Rodgers Lytton in profile at far right) and ...
Poster

Polish Victims' Relief Fund

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of people outside of a bombed out town, looking up at a glowing image of Marian, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. Clouds frame th...

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