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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
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 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, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Marilyn Draeger

Date: 1963
Description: Marilyn Draeger, originally from Fort Atkinson, the 1963 Alice in Dairyland wearing a crown and her Alice sash.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, LaVonne Hermann

Date: 1949
Description: LaVonne Hermann of Mount Horeb, the 1949 Alice in Dairyland, is shown in a formal pose, wearing her crown.
Photograph

Crowning of Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Ann Steffen of Appleton is crowned the 1952 Alice in Dairyland.
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wise, Sr.

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial...
Book or Pamphlet

44 - Woman Grooming Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman holding angora rabbit in her arms and grooming it with a brush. Text on page says, "Wollpflege".
Book or Pamphlet

45 - Woman Grooming Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman grooming angora rabbit on table with a brush.
Book or Pamphlet

46 - Woman Holding Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Angora rabbit being held on table by woman, in preparation for the shearing of the rabbit fur. Text on page says, "Angora-Wollschur".
Book or Pamphlet

48 - Woman Shearing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman shearing angora rabbit on table. The rabbit is shown in various stages of being shaved, and there is also a group of woman shearing rabbits on a long...
Book or Pamphlet

47 - Woman Shearing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman shearing angora rabbit on table. Shows the rabbit in various stages of being shaved.
Postcard

Man Rolling a Cigarette

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of a man sitting in a chair rolling a cigarette in front of a painted backdrop. A tin of Prince Albert Tobacco sits on his knee.
Postcard

Four Young People with Blackberries

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
Photograph

Potato Slicer

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Description: Close-up of a woman's hands using a potato slicer attached to a counter.
Photograph

Man with Super C Tractor and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View of a man crouching in front of a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to measure a stalk of corn in a field.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man, Woman, and Child

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man sitting with his family, and holding an apple in his mouth. The Ho-Chunk woman is pos...
Photograph

Three Ho-Chunk Children in a Field

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk children posing for a group portrait in a field known as Browneagle Bottoms. The children are, left to right, Maude Browneagle (WeHunKah), L...

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