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McCormick-Deering 15-30 Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor. Features a color image of the tractor and four black and white photos showing the tractor at wo...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Fairway Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for the Farmall Regular version of the McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor. Includes photographs of the machine in use. The Fairway was de...
Poster

International No. 20 and No. 30 Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Spanish advertising poster for International No. 20 and No. 30 industrial tractors showing tractors and construction equipment at work in several settings....
Photograph

Farm Boys Playing Basketball

Date: 1929
Description: Boys practicing for winter basketball games on the farm of Marcus Johnson.
Photograph

Young Boy with Catcher's Mitt

Date: 1929
Description: Young Robert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bailey, holding up a baseball catcher's mitt.
Photograph

High School Girls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of stylishly dressed girls from a Wisconsin high school posing outdoors.
Photograph

Chief Silver Tongue

Date: 1929
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Oscar Norton, also known as "Chief Silver Tongue." There is a brick wall, foliage, and blankets in the background.
Photograph

Chief Silver Tongue

Date: 1929
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Ho-Chunk Chief Silver Tongue standing holding an axe. Brick wall, foliage, and blankets in the background.
Photograph

Young Boy Picking Beans in Garden

Date: 1929
Description: Young boy, Edward Hall, picking beans in his "early" garden.
Photograph

Workers Load Dirt into International Heavy-Duty Truck

Date: 1929
Description: Workers are looking on as a Bucyrus Erie excavating crane is loading dirt into the bed of an International heavy-duty dump truck.
Photograph

Decorated International Heavy-Duty Coal Truck

Date: 1929
Description: International heavy-duty coal truck owned by Pocahontas Coal Company decorated. Placard on truck reads: "International motor truck. All steel shapes, plate...
Photograph

Pilot "Cash" Chamberlain

Date: 1929
Description: Commercial pilot C.B. "Cash" Chamberlain posed with a Hamilton Metalplane owned by Universal Airlines. Chamberlain began his flying career with the Walter ...
Photograph

Kohler Amphibian

Date: 1929
Description: A Loening Amphibian, one of three such airplanes in which the Kohler Aviation Company provided passenger service from Milwaukee across Lake Michigan.
Photograph

"Flying Fleet" Publicity Still

Date: 1929
Description: Publicity shot for "Flying Fleet," an MGM motion picture release starring Ramon Navarro and Anita Paige. The Navy aircraft on which the actors are posed is...
Photograph

McCormick "Marsh" Type Harvester

Date: 1929
Description: Men demonstrating the horse-drawn McCormick "Marsh type" harvester built ca. 1878. The men are wearing period dress and the photograph was most likely stag...
Photograph

McCormick Harvester and Wire Binder

Date: 1929
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick harvester and wire grain binder built in 1876. The scene is likely a historical re-enactment - possibly ...
Photograph

Men Cutting Grain with Cradles

Date: 1929
Description: Men cutting grain with cradles while other men gather it into bundles by hand. The scene is a re-enactment filmed in 1929 for the Fox-Hearst film "Romance ...
Photograph

Birthplace of Republican Party

Date: 1929
Description: 75th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican Party at Ripon. Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., stands on the podium in front of the Little Whi...
Photograph

Experimental IH Cotton Picker

Date: 1929
Description: View across cotton field towards right side of a man operating an experimental McCormick-Deering side and rear mounted one-row cotton picker.
Photograph

First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...

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