Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for C.H. and L.J. McCormick, "Manufacturers of Harvesting Machinery" with central color illustration of a man operating... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Advertising poster depicting a mower, reaper, hay wagon, and family picnic in a rural setting. Printed by Edward Mendel for C.H. McCormick & Bro. Includes ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | The first Farmers Alliance — also known as the Southern Alliance — is shown in front of the cabin in which their first formal meeting was held in 1877 in P... |
Date: | 1871 |
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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... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower... |
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