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Chinese Advertising Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Chinese advertising calendar produced for the International Harvester Export Company. Features color illustrations of Chinese and American flags, dragons, ...
Poster

Farmall Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors showing a map of the United States with trains speeding in all directions from Illinois. Bears th...
Poster

Deering Twine Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1928
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering brand binder twine showing a push binder and a grain binder in a field viewed through two arched windows. Inc...
Photograph

Tri City Airport

Date: 1928
Description: The Tri City Airport which served Wisconsin Rapids, Port Edwards, and Nekoosa, was organized in 1928 after the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company decided to pur...
Photograph

Reliability Tour

Date: 1928
Description: Race winners John P. Wood and Archie Towell, both of Wausau, during the National Air Reliability Tour's stop in Wausau.
Photograph

Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Corn Planters, Drills, and Cultivators Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering corn planters, drills, and cultivators. Features color illustrations of a basket of corn and farmers using a horse...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Farmall Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration of a Farmall Regular tractor against an aerial view of farm lands....
Photograph

Woman on a Tractor in a Field

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of a woman in a field on a McCormick-Deering 15-30 or 10-20 tractor with attached disk harrow.
Photograph

View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses.
Photograph

Farmall Regular Tractor in Soybean Field

Date: 1928
Description: A farmer in a field is using a Farmall Regular tractor with a mower attachment to cut soybeans for hay. The tractor is equipped with an umbrella that reads...
Photograph

Highway 11

Date: 1928
Description: A car drives across a metal bridge on Highway 11.
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

Date: 1928
Description: Exterior view of gas station/restaurant outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers Red Crown brand gasoline, Coney Island Red Hots, hot co...
Print

Cross Country, Malt Syrup Label

Date: 1928
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Cross Country, Hop Flavored, Malt Syrup, Made and packed by, Rock Island Brewing Co....
Print

Waterloo Boy Advertising Booklet Cover

Date: 1928
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor. The cover features a color illustration of a farmer using a Waterloo Boy tractor ...
Print

John Deere Branch Houses

Date: 1928
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor with a listing of John Deere branch houses. The John Deere trademark is at lower ri...
Print

John Deere Farm Tractor

Date: 1928
Description: Back cover of a booklet advertising the John Deere farm tractor featuring an illustration of a man using the tractor at center, surrounded by a decorative ...
Photograph

Automobile Stuck in the Snow

Date: 1928
Description: Winter scene with a plowed road and automobile stuck in a snowbank. There is a snowplow in the background.
Print

Waterloo Boy Tractor Plowing Diagram

Date: 1928
Description: Diagram illustrating the John Deere Waterloo Boy tractor's plowing power. The diagram shows an overhead view of the tractor pulling a plow through a field.
Print

Waterloo Boy in the Field

Date: 1928
Description: Photograph of a farmer using the Waterloo Boy tractor in a farm field. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "The Waterloo Boy, with its right-hand dri...

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