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Poster

Community Plate

Date: 1924
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose Dealers. The ad tells of a prize Primrose dealers are able to compete for. The poster was made for use in...
Poster

Advertisement for International Harvester Calendar

Date: 1924
Description: Advertisement sent to International Harvester dealers promoting the 1925 McCormick-Deering farm equipment calendar. The calendar features an illustration o...
Photograph

U.S. Sugar Company

Date: 1924
Description: Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory.
Photograph

International Bus

Date: 1924
Description: Large number of passengers squeezed into an International bus on an urban street.
Photograph

"Red Baby" Truck Carrying "One Minute" Washers

Date: 1924
Description: Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The...
Photograph

Woman Working with Milk Cans

Date: 1924
Description: Woman standing at a table with milk cans on it. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. A caption with th...
Photograph

Jennie Matzke and Bees

Date: 1924
Description: Jennie Matzke holds up a slate of honey comb covered in bees, while sitting next to numerous beehives.
Photograph

Wrights Eating Watermelon

Date: 1924
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright lounges on a hill near Spring Green with Kameki and Nobu Tsuchira and four other people, whose identities are unclear, eating watermelon...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Photograph

Roxbury General Store

Date: 1924
Description: Exterior view of the general store and automotive garage in Roxbury. A man and woman, possibly the owners, are standing in front of the buildings.
Photograph

Men with Bottles and Gun

Date: 1924
Description: Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful...
Poster

International Engines Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Chinese advertising poster for International engines. Features a color illustration of a stationary engine and two illustrations of engines powering machin...
Photograph

Painesville Memorial Chapel

Date: 1924
Description: A flag is flying on a flagpole in the front yard near the entrance of the Greek Revival building. Several people are exiting the one story building. A whit...
Photograph

Belle La Follette Reading

Date: 1924
Description: Belle Case La Follette standing at a window and reading.
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1924
Description: Studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, taken about the time of his independent campaign for the presidency. Mrs. La ...
Photograph

Choice Honey for Sale

Date: 1924
Description: Outdoor portrait of a young dark-haired women standing in a field of flowers before a sign attached to a telephone pole. The sign reads: "Choice Honey For ...
Photograph

Mary Brandel and Lucille Laun

Date: 1924
Description: Mary Brandel and Lucille Laun pose outside the Brandel home. They are standing on top of the brick walls which frame the stairway to the front porch.
Photograph

Couple with Horse-drawn Carriage

Date: 1924
Description: A young man and woman (probably Mary Brandel) pose on a parked horse-drawn carriage next to a drive. A man (face obscured) is standing behind the horse on ...
Photograph

Mrs. Brandel and Max the Dog

Date: 1924
Description: Mrs. Brandel poses outdoors in the yard near the house with Max the family dog and a toy rabbit at her feet.
Photograph

Halfway House

Date: 1924
Description: A copy of an old photograph of the W. McAuley Halfway House, an inn between Prairie du Chien and Viroqua. Mr. McAuley sits on a chair while a granddaughter...

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