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Young Girls Playing on School Swing

Date: 05 1928
Description: Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School.
Photograph

Elephants Drinking from Wagon Pulled by McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo...
Photograph

Turkey-drawn Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea...
Photograph

Children Racing Toy Pedal Tractors at IH Expo

Date: 09 1957
Description: Children at starting line of toy pedal tractor race near the International Harvester exhibit at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests, S...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: One of the Squash

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Riding a Pig

Date: 1916
Description: Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Peaches

Date: 1911
Description: Three young boys gather around a wheelbarrow filled with giant peaches. One of the boys is holding a peach that has been broken open, exposing its pit. Two...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (without Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Shooting the Shoots." A small girl is sliding down a wooden plank, whic...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (with Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of children playing on giant carrots. Two girls are sliding down a giant carrot while a third is climbing up the steps to get to the top of th...
Photograph

Two Children Play with International Harvester Toys

Date: 05 15 1927
Description: A young boy and girl play with International Harvester toys in front of a fireplace and feather Christmas tree. The toys include a truck, tractor, thresher...
Photograph

Boy with Cream Separator and Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A young boy is sitting on the floor next to an International Harvester cream separator while playing with a toy tractor and plow. A toy International truck...
Photograph

Boy with International Harvester Toys

Date: 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on a tile floor to play with die-cast toys of International Harvester machines, including an all-steel thresher, Farmall tractors, McCormi...
Photograph

Child Playing with International Harvester Toys

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: A boy is sitting on the floor near an International Harvester cream separator to play with toy versions of International Harvester machines, including Farm...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Child in Toy Locomotive

Date: 1925
Description: View across years towards a boy looking out the window of a cab of a toy locomotive as he is moving along a set of wooden tracks. Behind him is the wall of...
Photograph

Valentine's Day

Date: 02 12 1978
Description: "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ...
Photograph

Kay and Brenda Widmer

Date: 
Description: "Kay & Brenda Widmer pause on a high hill on McArthur Road southwest of Theresa."
Photograph

Sledding Hill

Date: 1971
Description: "Kay Widmer pulls her toboggan up the hill that is on the southwest edge of the village."

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