Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | View from street of workers, including some African Americans, loading (and/or unloading) agricultural equipment and parts outside a general office of the ... |
Date: | 10 01 1912 |
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Description: | African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly... |
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Description: | Farmer hauling corn to market with an ox-driven wagon. Original caption notes that oxen were used considerably in the south for motive power. |
Date: | 03 08 1915 |
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Description: | View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio... |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | Two women and two young girls in a field with an ox-driven walking plow. Original caption reads: "This picture was not taken in Egypt nor India nor Africa ... |
Date: | 11 19 1934 |
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Description: | Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
Date: | 05 01 1928 |
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Description: | Young man sitting in a planter drawn by two mules on the plantation of Mrs. William H. Stovall. |
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Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
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Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
Date: | 11 25 1942 |
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Description: | Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. |
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Description: | Stilted houses on a block of an African American community in Alabama. |
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Description: | A family from Sea Island that participated in the Citizenship Group. Cats can be seen to the left and in the doorway. |
Date: | 11 01 1879 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Packinghouse workers at an oyster plant in some part of Maryland. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
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