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Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
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Farmall Cub Engine Assembly Line

Date: 1948
Description: Factory worker tightening capscrews on a Farmall Cub engine with an electric high frequency wrench at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
Photograph

Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Hunter shows a dead rabbit to a man on a Farmall H tractor and a boy in a wagon full of pumpkins. The caption reads: "Mr. [William] Foreman is on the tract...
Photograph

Evansville Works Home Economics Kitchen

Date: 1948
Description: Three women in the home economics model kitchen at International Harvester's Evansville Works. Zelma Purchase is wrapping a food product at the table. Lori...
Postcard

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
Painting

Wisconsin Centennial Mural

Date: 1948
Description: Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie...
Photograph

Little Norway Building Interior

Date: 1948
Description: The interior of one of the buildings at "Little Norway," showing a group of objects of Norwegian decorative art and household utensils, including duck bowl...
Photograph

College of Engineering

Date: 1948
Description: View from Bascom Hill of front entrance to the Engineering Building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Drawing

Engineering Building

Date: 1948
Description: Model of the new Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Designed by the State Bureau of Architecture.
Photograph

Loading Red Diamond Engine

Date: 1948
Description: Factory workers loading a Red Diamond engine with an overhead pulley and crane system at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works.
Photograph

Transporting Engines

Date: 1948
Description: A factory worker uses a lift on a loading dock to transport six engines to a truck at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works.
Photograph

Identifying Union Activists

Date: 1948
Description: James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory.
Photograph

Tractor Works Cafeteria

Date: 1948
Description: Factory workers sitting at tables and standing in line to get food at a service counter in the cafeteria of International Harvester's Tractor Works. The cl...
Photograph

Tractor Works Cafeteria

Date: 1948
Description: Three men and three woman standing behind a service counter at the cafeteria in International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). The clock on the wall be...
Photograph

Six International Diesel Power Units

Date: 1948
Description: Six various sized International diesel power units, including the UD-6, UD-9, UD-14A, UD-16, UD-18A and UD-24.
Photograph

Posthole Digger Powered by Engine

Date: 1948
Description: Hough Payloader with post-hole digger powered by a non-International engine.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1948
Description: "Main (Milwaukee) Street. At this time Hwy 41 was still routed through the village."
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Scene still with Jack Oakie and Victor Killian

Date: 1948
Description: Actors Jack Oakie (left) and Victor Killian (pointing to the camera) use an 8x10 inch field camera as a prop in a publicity still for the 1948 western "Nor...
Photograph

Production still for "Let's Live a Little"

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Cummings, left foreground with sunglasses in his hand, looks down upon a busy advertising photography studio in 1948 romantic comedy "Let's Live a L...

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