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Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements, including a larger col...
Poster

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Milwaukee brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes a color illustration of a woman in Native American dress. Pr...
Poster

Low Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for the Low Cloverleaf manure spreader manufactured by the International Harvester Company. Includes the text: "Increases crop yields an...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Joy Ride

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th...
Photograph

Fish Creek

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene from Egg Harbor Road (Highway 42) in Fish Creek looking north toward frozen Fish Creek Harbor with the bluffs in Peninsula State Park beyond. ...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View down middle of street in the central business district. A drugstore is on the corner on the left and a hotel on the right corner. Horses and wagons ar...
Print

Testing of the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1915
Description: Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr...
Photograph

Large Horse-Drawn Wagons Loaded with Supplies

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence and field towards three large, horse-drawn wagons loaded with supplies.
Photograph

Ox-Drawn Binders in Field

Date: 1915
Description: Large group of people watching ox-drawn binders at work in a field. Men, women and children are standing and watching people working near the binders. Moun...
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers on Walkway on Side of Cliff

Date: 1915
Description: View looking up at Austrian soldiers standing on a wooden walkway with a metal railing attached to the side of a cliff above a lake in South Tyrol.
Photograph

Building a Walkway on the Side of a Mountain

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards Austrian soldiers working on the walkway along the side of a mountain close to the front in South Tyrol. Two men are in a boat at...
Photograph

Walkway Along a Mountain

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards Austrian soldiers building a walkway along the side of a mountain above a lake in South Tyrol. There is also a dog on the walkway...
Photograph

Austrian Supply Column

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops and supply wagons resting in the vicinity of the Uzsok Pass.
Photograph

Water Wheel in the Desert

Date: 1915
Description: Water wheel in the Syrian desert.
Photograph

Transporting Supplies Through the Taurus Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Transporting entrenching tools through the Taurus Mountains.
Photograph

Taurus Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Through the Wild Taurus Mountains in bad weather.
Photograph

The Champion Frogger

Date: 1915
Description: View of a girl holding several frogs by their legs. She presumably caught the frogs in the nearby wetland. Her sun hat is shading part of her face. Archiba...

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