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Summer Homes on Madeline Island

Date: 1925
Description: Aerial view of Woods' Manor on shores of Madeline Island. The manor was built in 1900 for summer resident Colonel Frederick Woods from Nebraska.
Poster

Harvester-Thresher Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) showing a tractor-drawn harvester-thresher in a field under the slogan: "Once Over ...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Corn Picker Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering corn pickers. Features a color illustration of the corn picker, and a photograph of a man using the corn picker in...
Poster

IH Two-Row Cultivators Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering two-row cultivators. Includes a color photograph of a man driving a cultivator behind three horses, a color illust...
Poster

10-20 and 15-30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: South American advertising poster for McCormick-Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors. Imprinted with "Gustavo Hinke & Co.; Oruro, La Paz, Cochabamba, Uyuni, Po...
Poster

Farmall Regular Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor, featuring a color illustration of the tractor and descriptive text, and two photograp...
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Excavation for New York City Subway

Date: 1925
Description: View looking down at workers at work below street level, with cranes and International trucks excavating area for the future New York City subway. On the r...
Poster

Deering Small Calendar

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for the Deering line. The 1926 French calendar's month of January shows a woman who had been working on a farm.
Photograph

Pesticide Spraying

Date: 1925
Description: Loading an airplane with calcium arsenate in order to spray for the hemlock looper pest in Peninsula State Park. This is believed to be the first such use ...
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University Drive in Winter

Date: 1925
Description: Winter scene of trees on a snowy hill along University Drive. There is a building at the top of the hill obscured by trees.
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Monument to the Pioneers

Date: 1925
Description: A man kneels next to a monument dedicated to the pioneers.
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Haney House

Date: 1925
Description: Berry Haney house, located about a mile east of Cross Plains. The stone portion of the house was built in 1840.
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View of Fountain City

Date: 1925
Description: Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View of Fountain City, Wis. M-1255". Aerial view of town with the river on the right.
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Bird's-Eye View of Fountain City

Date: 1925
Description: Bird's-eye view of Fountain City looking south, with high bluff on the left, and the Mississippi River on the right. Fountain City, about 4 blocks wide, ne...
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Eagle Bluff

Date: 1925
Description: View of Eagle Bluff, the highest point on the Mississippi River.
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Fountain City street scene including a law office and multiple other buildings. A tall bluff is in the distance.
Postcard

Bird's Eye View of Genoa

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Genoa. Caption reads: "Bird's Eye View, Genoa, Wis." The St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church is in the right foreground. Railroad tracks ...
Postcard

State Normal School

Date: 1925
Description: Large trees grace the lawn of the State Normal School located on Main Street. Albert Salisbury, the first president of the school, envisioned the campus as...
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Boisot Residence

Date: 1925
Description: The home of E.K. Boisot.
Postcard

N.W. Harris Residence

Date: 1925
Description: The home of N.W. Harris.

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