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Milwaukee Grain Exchange Room

Date: 1910
Description: Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo...
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Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
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Beer and Sweet Corn

Date: 08 24 1968
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival.
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Cheese in Storage

Date: 1952
Description: Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses.
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Sentry's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Department

Date: 02 14 1985
Description: A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store.
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Worker Machining Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: Worker machining a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) track roller shell with a turret lathe at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
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Milwaukee Works Foundry Operations

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: Worker pours molten metal into a mold for a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) main frame at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works foundry.
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McCormick-Deering I-30 Tractor Pulling Miller Beer Railroad Car

Date: 01 02 1934
Description: Two workmen use a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor to attach railroad cars carrying Miller High Life beer.
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Women Machining Cream Separator Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1918
Description: Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke...
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Pickled Peppers

Date: 11 21 1963
Description: A variety of canned and fresh peppers is artfully displayed by the woman who serves them to her family and gives them as gifts.
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Man Bobbing for Apples

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A college male successfully plunges for an apple while a college female looks on.
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Cemetery Maintenance

Date: 08 27 1980
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery.
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Railyard Worker on Tractor outside Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 12 26 1935
Description: Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke...
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Cemetery Workers Using an I-12 Tractor

Date: 1935
Description: Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon.
Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Print

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1894
Description: Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a little girl holding a small bouquet of wildflowers.
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a Milwaukee grain binder and a young...

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