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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a 10-year-old boy, Wilmer Nissley, driving a Farmall B tractor with a disk harrow attachment. He is driving his fathe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day "secret pal" card with a peach on the front, and a cake and plum on the inside (all shown). The peach has long eyelashes, red lipstick and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Madison magician Ben Bergor, standing in the trunk, and his wife, Alvina, standing nearby, getting ready to perform an amazing escape act. The act had Berg... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the second floor balcony of the Charles A Grignon House at Kaukauna showing the historic boat canal and the Fox River beyond it. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of foundation of the house built by Dominique DuCharme in 1790 and enlarged by Augustin Grignon after 1804. The Grignon family resided in the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man walks down Main Street towards an Amoco station and parked cars. To his left, a sign advertises "The Art Center" located on Hoyt's Lane. The Leavit... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down a country road leading from the outskirts of town. On the right, a horse-drawn carriage is parked outside the Post Office and F.A. Irish Grocerie... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the village green, with rustic bridges and dwellings in the background. Automobiles are further down the street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lakeside view from pier of large two-story house and grounds on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | One-story house with a stone chimney in the woods. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering combines (harvester-threshers). Includes the text: "McCormick-Deering Combines for every farm and ev... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for "McCormick-Deering Hammer and Roughage Mills / Corn Shellers, Feed grinders." Includes a photograph of a field with co... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering fertiizer and lime distributors, featuring a herd of cows grazing. Includes the slogan: "acres of pr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering tractor mowers. Features two photographs of farmers pulling mowers with Farmall tractors. Original c... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering plows, featuring photo illustrations of men operating a horse-drawn walking plow, a horse-drawn sulky... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTors (crawler tractors), featuring photographs of TD-9 crawler tractors in an agricu... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the International D-2 truck, featuring a photograph of a delivery man in a residential neighborhood with a D-2 Holsum b... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Wheeled Walking Plows. Includes the text: "Easy to Handle, Dependable, Sturdy." This advertisement w... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Wood carts and drivers on a street in Sarajevo, about a year before the city fell to the Germans. |
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