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Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Bluebell line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a woman encountering a bird an...
Photograph

Pheasant Banding

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Robert McCabe, University of Wisconsin Arboretum biologist, and Jim Hale, his assistant, study the band on one of the pheasants caught in the trap in the b...
Photograph

Woman in Pen with Turkeys

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Description: A woman standing in a pen with a group of turkeys.
Photograph

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1918
Description: Two pelicans and other waterfowl on the lagoon in Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), opened in 1911.
Photograph

Elderly Man and Children

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Description: A studio portrait, in front of a painted backdrop, of an elderly man with a beard sitting and holding a stuffed bird to attract the attention of two childr...
Photograph

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1918
Description: Two young girls looking at the birdcages at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
Photograph

Henry Greencrow, William Hall and Charlie Greengress with Specimens of Taxidermy

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a...
Postcard

Scene at Vilas Park Zoo

Date: 1915
Description: Early souvenir postcard showing people viewing the bird cages at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). Caption reads: "Interesting Scenes at the Vilas Park...
Postcard

Monkey House

Date: 1970
Description: View of Monkey House. On the lawn are flamingos, and in the background is a bear at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Photograph taken by Edwin Proctor. To...
Postcard

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1940
Description: A postcard of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) depicting aquatic fowl, with an inset of a sea lion on a rock. Caption reads: "At the Zoo, Madison, Wis....
Print

Dear Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card with a boy pumping water while a girl is scrubbing a heart in a tub. He is wearing a blue outfit and she is wearing a lacy blouse. A s...
Photograph

People and Buggies Posing in Front of a House

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Description: On the far left a man and woman are posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse. Next to them is a man posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a team of...
Magazine or Periodical

The American Velocipede

Date: 1886
Description: Engraved image from a sketch by Theodore Davis showing four men bicycling.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Fold-Out Card — Inside

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Description: Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed...
Print

L.A. May & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card with color illustration of a man on hands and knees in the water holding the end of a firearm which is sticking out of the water. His hat ...
Poster

McCormick-Deering No. 60 Combine

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for the "Efficient, Low-Cost Harvesting," and "A One-Man Combine For Any Man's Farm." Features a color illustration of a man on a tracto...
Photograph

Good People, Bad Product

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Description: Three people behind a fenced gate with two signs. One reads: "U.S. Air Force: Good People, Bad Product," and the other sign, on the right, has a peace dove...
Photograph

Military Homing Pigeons

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man's arm and hand holding a military homing pigeon. A sign on the cage in the background reads: "Military Homing Pigeons. These ar...
Drawing

Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
Photograph

Hunting on a Shooting Preserve

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Description: Two men holding rifles with two black labs in a field. The man on the right is kneeling in the snow and holding a pheasant which one of the dogs is carryin...

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