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| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Melchoir House, which was a popular hostelry and brewery operated by Jacob Melchoir. It later became an Indian boarding house. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers loads hay into a hay press on an Australian farm. The men are also using a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor and a pickup truck. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A large float decorated with a farm scene and blanketed with flowers moves down a city street (possibly Michigan Avenue in Chicago). The float is part of t... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The tower of the building is on the right, with flag poles at various peaks on the roof. On the right across the street is a building with classical style ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Tower view from the First Congregational Church of the University campus and University Avenue. Lake Mendota is in the background on the left. The Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the entrance to the Devi-Bara Resort. There is sign on the fence that reads, "Saddle Horses - 1/2 block" and another sign on a tree denoting that t... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of the church. It has a bell steeple, stained glass windows, double french doors with an archway, and a wall gable facade.... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View looking east on Grant Street in Glidden Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men and women, some in bathing suits, pose in front of the Gallop Inn Resort restaurant. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a one-story brick building with a brick chimney, the Mason State Bank. An automobile is parked nearby, and in the background are other bui... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View down lake shoreline on Lake Manitowish at Little Bohemia. There are stairs coming down to the lake, and a bench, as well as docks, a flag pole and a d... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the road and entrance to Mercer Tourist Park on Grand Portage Lake showing the fences, road and buildings. The larger building on the left has a st... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men emptying a metal garbage can into the bed of an International Model AW-2 truck. The lettering on the truck reads: "Garbage Dept. P... |
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