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Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...
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...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Postcard

Van Brunt Plant

Date: 
Description: View of the Van Brunt plant. The Van Brunt Manufacturing Company began in 1860 when brothers George and Daniel Van Brunt patented a design for a combinatio...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Deering Corn Machines manufactured by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a small bridge over a stream...
Photograph

Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of the Kimberly-Clark Paper Mill on the Fox River, just east of Appleton.
Photograph

TD-20C Crawler Tractor at Bridge Construction Site

Date: 07 1971
Description: Color photograph of a worker operating an International TD-20C crawler tractor (TracTracTor) at a bridge construction site. Other construction workers are ...
Photograph

Snow Removal using McCormick-Deering 10-20 Tractor

Date: 12 21 1925
Description: Rear view of a man plowing a snow-covered city street with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor. There is a railing on the right.
Poster

Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch...
Photograph

Bridge Construction

Date: 08 1995
Description: "A new bridge was built where Zion Church Road intersects Highway 175. The road was later relocated and now passes on the right of the farm building on th...
Photograph

High Bridge

Date: 1922
Description: View from shoreline of bridge over the Wisconsin River. In the left lower foreground is a shed, and a rowboat. On the opposite shoreline are farms and fiel...
Photograph

Scenic View

Date: 
Description: View over river with a small bridge in front of the Carnation Factory with tree-covered hills in the background. Dwellings and fields are in the far right ...
Postcard

City Water Pumping Station

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard with an elevated view of the pumping station. On the left is a bridge over the river, and buildings on a strip of land between the river...
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Print

South Bend Chilled Plow Advertising Card

Date: 
Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using the plow in a field with a team of two horses.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Catalog cover for harvesting machines featuring an inset illustration of a bridge and waterfall, with a foreground illustration of a fence, and a man worki...
Photograph

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of harbors and bridge. Farm fields are on either side of the bridge. The city of Sturgeon Bay is in the distance. There are docks along the sho...
Photograph

No. 30 Harvester-Thresher

Date: 06 13 1930
Description: Original caption reads: "Right side view of the No. 30 harvester-thresher with header platform removed."
Photograph

Hay Presses Arranged in Yard at Champion Works

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of hundreds of hay presses lined up in a yard at Champion Works.
Photograph

UD-24 — Cotton Gins

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Cotton Gins." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by the Potosi Mill & Elev. Co., Potosi, Mo. All power for mi...

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