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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Book or Pamphlet

German Flyer for Deering Grain Binders

Date: 1931
Description: German advertising leaflet for International Harvester's Deering line of grain binders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with horse-dra...
Photograph

CM&SP Railroad Engine

Date: 1931
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #6414, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and purchased in 1931. The train is near the 26th...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of the living quarters at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and studio. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and studio. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1931
Description: View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School.
Photograph

Looking East on Grant Street

Date: 1931
Description: View looking east on Grant Street in Glidden Wisconsin.
Photograph

Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S...
Photograph

Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards...
Photograph

View of Pine Gable's on Lake Owen

Date: 1931
Description: View from the water of three boys on the dock at the foot of a steep stairway. There is a large roofed landing with benches half way up the hill, and many ...
Photograph

Pine Gables on Lake Owen

Date: 1931
Description: View from lake of a few boys on a dock as well as four wooden boats pulled up along the dock or the shoreline. There is a diving platform at the end of the...
Print

Widening Pennsylvania's Roadbed

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. An International truck ascends a hillside during the widening of the Pennsylvania roadbed betwe...
Print

Lincoln Highway Construction

Date: 1931
Description: Page from an advertising brochure for International trucks. International trucks are used on a construction site during the building of the George Westingh...
Photograph

Boy with Calf

Date: 1931
Description: Claire Alexander posing with a young calf in a pasture near a wooded ravine at his father's farm. There is a manure spreader and shed in the background.
Photograph

Beach at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells."
Photograph

Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
Photograph

Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
Photograph

Ohnstein Cottage

Date: 1931
Description: View from water of a child playing near a playpen on the lawn of a one and one-half story cottage on a slope along the shore of a lake. There is a stone se...
Photograph

Getting Water

Date: 1931
Description: George Stallman and Walter Shinkus pose with a bucket at the water pump outside the Tibbets School. They are "getting water for the school." There are hou...

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