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Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
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Taxidermist Working on Cow at Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 1946
Description: Julius Friesser, master taxidermist, mounting one of the five cows that occupy the International Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Indust...
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Horse Track at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A KRNT radio broadcaster sitting on a platform above a horse track at the Iowa State Fair as another man on the right is filming the race for television. A...
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Educated Monkeys Show at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: An audience gathers to watch the "Buttons Educated Monkeys" show, one of the attractions televised to the International Harvester tent at the Iowa State Fa...
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Prize Bull at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Three men look at the first-prize bull in a pen at the Iowa State Fair. The original caption reads: "John Minish(?), North English, Iowa. 1st prize jr. yea...
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4-H Bee Club

Date: 1946
Description: John Amos and Wilbur Allio wear protective veils and are standing on either side of a hive of bees.
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Crowd at Train Station

Date: 1946
Description: Elevated view of group of men and women gathered in a train station to greet passengers disembarking a train in a staged photograph for International Harve...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc...
Print

DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife

Date: 1946
Description: Cover of United States Department of the Interior Circular 11 entitled DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife by Clarence Cottam and Elmer Higgins. Th...
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Coffin Cart

Date: 1946
Description: A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II.
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Woman with French Bulldog

Date: 1946
Description: A woman is standing on the front steps of a house with a french bulldog. The woman is dressed up in a fur coat, a fancy hat and high heels.
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Cattle in a Field

Date: 1946
Description: View over fence of cattle grazing in a large, open field. In the far background is a cornfield and farm buildings along a low hill.
Print

Olympian Hiawatha

Date: 1946
Description: Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man...
Print

White Oak's Restaurant = Rathskeller Menu

Date: 1946
Description: Front cover of die cut menu from White Oak's Restaurant = Rathskeller in the shape of a decorated beer stein. On the stein is a man and a woman holding alo...
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Autumn Pasture, Shawano County

Date: 1946
Description: View over fence towards a pasture, with several cows lying on the ground. Leaves are covering the ground.
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Fellowship Farm Group Portrait

Date: 1946
Description: Residents of the Fellowship Farm pose for a casual outdoor group portrait. From left to right are: Walter Uphoff with Gene, Priscilla Stevenson, Dorothy We...

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