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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion line of farm machinery. Features an illustration of a farmer using a Champion binder with a fenc...
Book or Pamphlet

Grout and Company Agricultural Implements Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for John H. Grout and Company, manufacturers of agricultural implements, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Features an illustration...
Book or Pamphlet

Low Spread Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester manure spreaders. Includes an image of a man operating a horse-drawn manure spreader framed by ...
Photograph

Adams Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: The Adams family lives at W584 Hwy 28. Their home overlooks the Theresa Marsh. Jeff and Maureen are pictured with their children, (l to r) Joshua, Michael,...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard with an ornate design of two square frames, filled with Santa on the left and a girl on the right, and an oval frame in the middle filled ...
Postcard

With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and...
Postcard

A Joyful Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus sledding down a snow-covered hill on a toboggan with a sack of toys on his back. He is wearing his traditional red hat wi...
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
Print

Season's Greetings, Let's Stamp Out the Dictators!

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space....
Photograph

Cabin and Trees

Date: 
Description: View of a cabin among moss-covered trees near a field. A man crouches while working in the field on the right.
Photograph

Valley Scene

Date: 
Description: Valley view from Skyline Drive. Four people on horseback look down upon the farmland of the valley from a rocky ledge.
Photograph

Margelofsky Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Wayne and Ruth Margelofsky live at W2202 Hwy TW (Section 6).
Photograph

Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
Photograph

Plymouth in 1622

Date: 
Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
Photograph

Home of Governor Bradford

Date: 
Description: Reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams of the home of Governor Bradford in 1621. Exterior view features logs, a thatched roof, a chimney, and a surro...
Photograph

Cranberry Parade Float

Date: 1950
Description: Parade float sponsored by Eatmor and Ocean Spray Cranberries. A beauty contestant sits with a large cranberry pie on the float which is pulled by a John De...
Postcard

American Homestead Life Postcard

Date: 1910
Description: Color postcard decorated on the border with autumn-colored leaves and an American flag crest on the top, center, and a banner which reads, "American Homest...
Photograph

Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans.
Photograph

Two Men with Implements and Cigarettes

Date: 
Description: Two men in work clothes and hats pose in a yard with farm implements. Both of them are smoking cigarettes.

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