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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

Workers Machine Tractor Engine Blocks

Date: 1916
Description: Factory workers machine tractor engine blocks at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before...
Photograph

Drainage Districts Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o...
Photograph

Display Booth at the Fair

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: L.L. Olds Seed Company display booth of flowers and seeds at Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Rock County Display Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Rock County farm crops exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Photograph

Friendly Persuasion

Date: 08 06 1987
Description: Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair.
Photograph

Farm Plow

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two horses pull a spring tooth harrow. The farmer plans to plant barley.
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Works

Date: 02 1907
Description: Exterior view of the Milwaukee Harvester Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Residential Housing

Date: 1936
Description: View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background.
Photograph

George Arsand Operating a Case "L" Tractor

Date: 
Description: George H. Arsand of South Milwaukee operating his Case model "L" tractor. Original caption reads: "Driving back home after a big day's work done with his ...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson

Date: 06 30 1950
Description: The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown

Date: 1955
Description: Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 26 1953
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks, stands with a cow on a float representing the Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-op in the Dairy Parade at the Wisconsin State ...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1956
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Doris Olsen, holds a cream puff, always a favorite Wisconsin State Fair treat, as she talks with two bakers at the fair.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, the Alice in Dairyland from Ladysmith, views a billboard announcing the stock car races scheduled for the Wisconsin State Fair during Au...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland Waves to the Crowd

Date: 09 03 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland from Chippewa Falls, rides in the official convertible provided for Alice by Hult's in Madison. She is waving...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...

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