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Family Gathering on Basswood Island

Date: 1916
Description: Picnic on the shores of Basswood Island, Apostle Islands. Those picnicking include Harriet Webb, C.A. Hull, H.W. Rodgers, Mrs. J. Austin, Elizabeth Baker, ...
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Maypole Dancers on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon...
Photograph

Hull Tennis Court

Date: 1916
Description: Two women playing tennis at Coole Park Manor on Madeline Island.
Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1916
Description: South American advertising poster for Titan tractors featuring color illustrations of Titan 10-20, 15-30 and 30-60 tractors. Imprinted with "Buenos Aires [...
Poster

Mogul Tractor Advertising Poster (South America)

Date: 1916
Description: South American advertising poster for Mogul kerosene tractors featuring color illustrations of Mogul 8-16 and 12-25 tractors. Includes the text: "Reducen e...
Photograph

Man Riding Whitney 6-12 Experimental Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man riding a Whitney 6-12 light-weight gasoline tractor. Placard reads "r.p.m. 1300, plowing speed 1.75-2.5 m.p.h." The tractor was sold in small numbers b...
Photograph

International Model M Grocery Truck

Date: 1916
Description: Man sitting behind the wheel of an International Model M grocery truck in front of the Good Luck grocery store. A sign on the back of the truck reads: Good...
Photograph

Experimental International Harvester Motor Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: Man with cigar tests an International Harvester experimental motor cultivator in a field.
Photograph

William "Billy" Mitchell in Flight Gear

Date: 1916
Description: General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear.
Photograph

Golf Course Landing

Date: 1916
Description: A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou...
Photograph

Employees Unload Weber Wagon Parts from Railroad Car

Date: 1916
Description: Two men unloading Weber wagon parts from a railroad car in front of the Umpleby Implement Company while a portly man in a bowler hat is gesturing from a di...
Photograph

"McCormick Day"

Date: 1916
Description: Farmers in the street of a rural town with their International Harvester horse-drawn mowers and binders on "McCormick Day." The event was organized by the ...
Photograph

Children Working in School Garden

Date: 1916
Description: Large group of students and teachers working in the Tyler School Gardens. The director of the school (or gardens?) was E.M. Bardwell.
Photograph

Farmer with Horse-Drawn Corn Planter

Date: 1916
Description: Farmer operating an International Harvester corn planter with fertilizer attachment drawn by two horses or donkeys. The photograph was taken for, or compil...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Machine Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of corn machines, showing an old man next to a scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern f...
Photograph

Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man operating an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels over rough terrain.
Photograph

Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
Book or Pamphlet

International Motor Trucks with Special Bodies for Bus and Transfer Service

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1916 line of International motor trucks with special bodies for bus and transfer service. Features an image ...
Photograph

Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ...
Photograph

International Model F Truck on Pike's Peak

Date: 1916
Description: Four men sitting in an International "Model F" truck after the first climb to the top of Pike's Peak in 1916. The truck is in the middle distance, with a v...

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