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International D-Line Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-line truck hauling a large section of aqueduct with a reservoir in the ba...
Print

International Harvester Paint Chart

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer containing paint chips for repainting International Harvester tractors and farm machines. The chart includes "Harvester Red Varnish Enamel for Farm M...
Photograph

Testing Apparatus for McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 1940
Description: McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ...
Photograph

Testing Apparatus for McCormick-Deering Combine

Date: 1940
Description: McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ...
Photograph

Blockhouse Mine

Date: 1940
Description: Blockhouse lead mine with cows grazing.
Photograph

Loading Sacks with Farmall A Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but...
Photograph

Fond du Lac Airport

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view of Fond du Lac Airport.
Photograph

WD-6 Diesel and Farmall A Tractors

Date: 1940
Description: Farmer Leo Sucharski on his new WD-6 diesel tractor. Mr. Sucharski is talking to C.A. Reef, an International Harvester farm equipment dealer from Gasport. ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Seed Company

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Seed Company, Funk's Hybrid, with several automobiles parked beside it.
Photograph

Cranberry Spraying

Date: 1940
Description: Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ...
Photograph

Cranberry Industry Equipment

Date: 1940
Description: An underwater clipper used by a Wisconsin cranberry grower between 1930 and 1940. This photograph was probably taken near Wisconsin Rapids, perhaps on the ...
Photograph

Haystacks

Date: 1940
Description: Large stacks of hay or wheat.
Photograph

Harvested Corn Still in Husks

Date: 1940
Description: Close-up of ears of corn.
Photograph

Iva Kearney in a Milk Advertisement

Date: 1940
Description: Studio portrait of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand.
Photograph

Outdoor Billboard Promoting Dairy Products

Date: 1940
Description: Outdoor advertising billboard rendered from a photograph of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand.
Photograph

Road Construction with TD-18 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Men work on a new road with an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and an Austin-Western grader. Original caption reads: "TD-18 T.T.T. and Au...
Photograph

City of Davenport Industrial Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: An man on a International I-12 tractor owned by the city of Davenport is lifting gravel into a truck.
Photograph

City of Davenport Industrial Tractor

Date: 1940
Description: Men work with an International I-12 tractor owned by the city of Davenport.
Photograph

I-12 Tractor with Snowplow

Date: 1940
Description: A man operating an International I-12 tractor with a snowplow to plow a sidewalk. A group of children are walking behind the snowplow.
Photograph

I-12 Tractor on a Golf Course

Date: 1940
Description: A man mows a golf course with an International I-12 tractor owned by the City of Davenport. A group of women are playing golf in the background.

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