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Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a young girl holding an apple behi...
Photograph

Calf for the Fair Competition

Date: 1942
Description: Phyllis Paulson of Stoughton with the calf she planned to enter in the Junior Fair competition at the Wisconsin State Fair. The calf's name was Elsie, perh...
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 ...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Kickers without Frogs

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Kickers." A boy wearing waders and holding a rifle stands with his arms ...
Photograph

Children with Prize-Winning Chicks

Date: 05 1925
Description: Two children of Vernon Shurs sit and stand near four poultry houses and multiple prize-winning Rhode Island Red chicks. The girl, squatting and wearing a d...
Photograph

Boy with Prize-Winning Rooster

Date: 1920
Description: A boy wearing a straw hat, cuffed overalls, and sneakers sits on a wooden crate while holding a prize-winning rooster. A ribbon rests on the boy's leg read...
Photograph

Mrs. Gillespie Feeding Chickens

Date: 06 1930
Description: Mrs. Gillespie using a metal bucket to feed a flock of White Leghorn chickens outside a farm building on an International Harvester demonstration farm. A s...
Photograph

4-H Members Showing Four Bovines

Date: 1930
Description: Four boys who are 4-H members are wearing hats and showing their calves, probably at the Sawyer County Fair.
Photograph

Two Girls and Their Dog

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Description: Two girls and a dog sit in a field where oats have been cut and shocked. The girl on the left is sitting inside one of the oat shocks and smiling at the ca...
Photograph

Young Boy with Two Dogs

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Description: A young boy wearing work clothes, boots and a knit cap stands on a hill with his two dogs. Behind him a man holding what appears to be a coil of wire is st...
Photograph

Children and Horses with Hay Rake

Date: 1915
Description: One barefoot child is sitting on a hay rake behind two horses. The other child is standing directly behind the hay rake which is in a field.
Photograph

Watt Children in Field with Lamb

Date: 1900
Description: Glendora and Russell Watt, the children of Ephraim and Adelaide Watt are standing with a lamb in an open field. Glendora is holding a bottle for feeding th...

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