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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Coffee Club

Date: 1950
Description: Two men clink coffee mugs as they prepare to drink their morning coffee.
Photograph

Skavlem Family

Date: 1875
Description: The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r...
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Halle Steensland with Wife and Children

Date: 1876
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. (Th...
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Country Boy and City Boy

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Description: The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country.
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Coffee Break at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Two people take a break at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant: the woman enjoys a cup of coffee, her companion works on a crossword puzzle.
Poster

Canton Works Illustration

Date: 1919
Description: Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H...
Photograph

"Deseret News" Truck

Date: 08 03 1933
Description: A group of young men riding in the back of an International truck used by the "Deseret News" of Salt Lake City, Utah. The truck is parked at the "A Century...
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Hailstones

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Description: Round hailstones piled on a saucer with either grape or cherry tomatoes, or perhaps eggs, placed next to them for size comparison. A newspaper is under the...
Print

Jerry Rusk Cartoon

Date: 09 20 1891
Description: Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i...
Photograph

Mr. Tony Gildig

Date: 09 23 1936
Description: A man wearing overalls sitting with a newspaper in his hands at a table in a house. Original caption reads: "Mr. Tony Gildig owner of McCormick-Deering 6 c...
Poster

Crop Emergency Here!

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 2, "Crop Emergency." The poster features a newspaper theme. The newspaper title is "The American Appeal." The main art...
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"Rag Doll" Testing

Date: 1913
Description: Class of girls and teacher running a seed germination test ("rag-doll" test) in the classroom. The class is standing around a table, and are using a pail t...
Book or Pamphlet

Snow Removal Advertising Catalog

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an International Harvester advertising catalog for snow removal equipment. An illustration depicts a man operating an industrial tractor equipped ...
Photograph

Home Canning

Date: 1915
Description: A woman wearing a dress and bonnet is using a wire potato masher to remove a jar of peaches from a vat of boiling water. Several jars of canned goods are s...
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Woman with Home Canning Equipment

Date: 1915
Description: Mrs. Buckley, wearing a dress, apron, and bonnet, is standing next to a table where equipment used for the home canning of agricultural produce is displaye...
Print

Farm Implement News Cartoon

Date: 1936
Description: A cartoon from "Farm Implement News" stressing the importance of buying domestic binder twine.
Photograph

Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and Alice in Dairyland

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Description: The Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles, an unknown man, and Alice in Dairyland pose at the "Milwaukee Sentinel" exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Book or Pamphlet

Baby Savidge Tractor Demonstration

Date: 09 15 1920
Description: Notice run in the "Alton Daily Times" newspaper by the Backus Tractor Company for a demonstration of the Baby Savidge Tractor. The text reads: "Backus Trac...
Print

The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...

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