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Photograph

Hauling Pumpkins with an International R-160 Truck

Date: 1953
Description: Man and a boy loading (or unloading) pumpkins into an International R-160 truck.
Photograph

Nemadji River

Date: 1953
Description: Nemadji River at the foot of 2nd Avenue and Robertson Avenue. A man is standing near the grassy shoreline in the center.
Photograph

Harvey Home Marker

Date: 1953
Description: View of the Governor Louis P. Harvey home marker. Two women are standing behind the sign. A clock is at top right.
Photograph

Rock with Petroglyphs

Date: 1953
Description: Stone displaying ancient writing. The rock was on the grounds of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Grounds. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was...
Photograph

TD-24 Crawler Tractor at Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Man on a TD-24 crawler tractor looks down over International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Internation...
Photograph

League of Women Voters

Date: 1953
Description: League Of Women Voters at a United Nations Day table. Shown, left to right, are: Janet Berger, Grace Shaw, Carolyn Wilds, and Joyce Erdman.
Photograph

Clemency for the Rosenbergs

Date: 1953
Description: Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received a death sentence in 1951, not long after Joseph R. McCarthy burst into the headlines with his charges a...
Photograph

R-120 Truck

Date: 1953
Description: View of a man standing on the back of an International R-120 truck with a stake body to unload boxes of Whip salad dressing.
Photograph

R-120 Truck at Nursery

Date: 1953
Description: Color photograph of a man unloading a burlap bag onto the back of an International R-120 pickup truck in front of "Toll Gate Nursery."
Photograph

R-170 Truck

Date: 1953
Description: Color photograph of a man standing next to an International R-170 stake-body truck loaded with bales of hay.
Photograph

International Earthmovers Testing

Date: 1953
Description: Men operate three International Harvester earthmovers at the company's Phoenix Proving Grounds.
Photograph

Farm Profit Protest

Date: 1953
Description: Farmers and their supporters picket at the National Farm Institute to protest farm prices and their poor economic outlook.
Photograph

Packinghouse Picnic

Date: 1953
Description: Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic.
Photograph

Merriman Smith and Dayton Moore

Date: 1953
Description: Merriman Smith, perched on a table with Dayton Moore in the press lounge. They are two correspondents who covered the White House.
Photograph

International R-180 Garbage Truck

Date: 1953
Description: A man is emptying refuse into an International R-180 garbage truck parked in a residential neighborhood.
Photograph

Women of the Moose Presents Check and Gifts

Date: 1953
Description: Women of the Moose Senior Regent Cora S. Sannes presents a check for $500 to the Grand Regent Madeline Clark of Moosehart, Illinois. The money is to be use...
Print

Merry Christmas the Q.J. O'Sullivans

Date: 1953
Description: Photographic holiday card from the Q.J. O'Sullivan family. The children of the family are outdoors and are all dressed in winter clothes. Two of the childr...
Photograph

Sleigh Ride in Outagamie County

Date: 1953
Description: Winter scene with a farmer driving a team of horses pulling a large wooden sled on a snow-covered road. Standing to his side, from left to right, is Marge ...
Photograph

Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn

Date: 1953
Description: Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
Book or Pamphlet

"Now is the Time for Showmanship" Booklet Cover

Date: 1953
Description: Cover of booklet on how to promote new International Harvester equipment with an equipment show and family party, and how to put them together for profit. ...

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