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P&O Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: South African advertising poster for P&O plows, "made especially for South African conditions" and "sold by Champions Limited, Durban, Bloemfontein, East L...
Book or Pamphlet

French Catalog for Deering Industrial Tractors

Date: 1927
Description: Cover of a French advertising catalog for Deering industrial tractors featuring a man driving an industrial tractor with a crane attached. An elephant is n...
Print

Spanish McCormick Binder and Header Catalog Cover

Date: 1927
Description: Spanish advertising catalog for McCormick binders and headers. Title on catalog reads: "La Espigadora 'Picaflor' McCormick" and features an illustration of...
Photograph

Olson's Wolf Trip

Date: 1927
Description: Sigurd Olson, left, traveling by dogsled with game hunter Uiho Salminen as part of his study of predator control for his master's degree.
Photograph

Potato Lake - Campbell's Resort

Date: 1927
Description: Lake view from the shore. A man, son, and two dogs stand at the dock. A herd of swans bathe nearby.
Photograph

Post Office on Highway 40

Date: 1927
Description: An elderly man, woman, and dog pose near two younger women wearing aprons outside the Island Lake Post Office and Burpee's Resort.
Photograph

Seagulls

Date: 1927
Description: A large flock of seagulls flies over a fishing boat.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Skid

Date: 1927
Description: David Kincaid, caretaker of the Hotz Europe Lake estate, stands on a skid pulled by a horse. His axe is embedded in one of the runners.
Photograph

Wisconsin Cottage

Date: 1927
Description: Four people and a dog pose in front of a small cottage with a large fieldstone fireplace. They are, from left: Armin Duchow and his father George, Potter, ...
Photograph

Colburn Cottages

Date: 1927
Description: Two Colburn Cottages on a shoreline of the Wisconsin River. In the yard a man is posing in front of an automobile near a dog standing on its haunches. Ther...
Photograph

Giant Prehistoric Ox Horns and Skull

Date: 1927
Description: A man is holding the broken end of a giant prehistoric ox horn next to the rest of the horns and partial skull to show the size. It is noted that they meas...
Photograph

Workmen at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i...
Photograph

Plastering Straw Stacks with Clay

Date: 1927
Description: Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu...
Photograph

Alonzo Pond Taking Movies of the Market

Date: 1927
Description: Alonzo Pond using a movie camera at the market. Behind him people are walking among a number of camels sitting on the ground.
Photograph

At Riverview Free Campground

Date: 1927
Description: The general store and boat tour ticket selling counter. A man and a dog are posing in the foreground.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin

Date: 1927
Description: This map includes an index and highways marked in red. Attractions on the map include: Four Mile House, Cold Springs, Grand Crossing Station, Coleman Sloug...
Photograph

Children with Goats

Date: 1927
Description: Five children, probably cousins, including Edward Petersen, center, and his brother Conrad, second from right, pose with two goats in an orchard at Black P...
Photograph

Boys and the Goat House

Date: 1927
Description: The Petersen brothers, from far left William Otto, Conrad Schmidt, and Edward William, with an unidentified boy (probably a cousin) pose in front of a smal...
Photograph

Turners at Hancock Point

Date: 1927
Description: Caroline Mae Sherwood and Frederick Jackson Turner with their dog at Hancock Point.
Poster

"The Silent Avenger" Lobby Card

Date: 1927
Description: Lobby card for the film "The Silent Avenger." A man in pajamas and wearing a top hat is sitting on a bed playing a trombone. Thunder the dog is sitting nex...

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