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Poster

Wisconsin State Fair Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair.
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of farmers operating grain binders in Mexico. Includes a color illustration of two grain binders pulled by oxen or cattle. Original caption reads:...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Photograph

J.A. 'Doc' Hines Checking Cow for Pregnancy

Date: 1990
Description: Veterinarian J.A. 'Doc" Hines checking a cow for pregnancy.
Photograph

Elmer the Bull

Date: 1951
Description: Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o...
Photograph

Cattle Drive In Alma

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Description: Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence.
Photograph

Farmyard with Cattle

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Description: View of a barnyard with a large rock in the middle. Two men, a wagon, cattle, sheep, horses are near the barn, which has a cupola and a stone foundation. O...
Photograph

N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
Photograph

Family with Farm Animals near Barn

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Description: Family and animals, including horses and cattle with some apparent shorthorn markings, near the barn. Behind the group of two women and four children is a ...
Photograph

Boys Fishing near John P. Linde's Farm

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Description: Boys fish in a stream, with cattle, horses, a farmhouse and a barn in the background.
Photograph

Cowboys at Roundup

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Description: A group of cowboys at roundup.
Photograph

Cowboys at Indian Ranch House

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Description: Cowboys come in for dinner at an Indian Territory ranch house. Their horses wait near trees.
Photograph

Oklahoma Cattle

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Description: Elevated view of several cowboys on horseback on a range. A large number of cattle can be seen nearby. Caption reads: "A Cattle Scene Near Tulsa."
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Photograph

Cattle in Snow on Main Street

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Description: Winter scene with short-horned cattle on snow-covered Main Street, Black River Falls, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Herding Cows

Date: 03 20 1953
Description: Man herding cows along side of road with dog following.
Photograph

Feeding Yard at Chestnut Hills Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Men and cattle in the feeding yard near a barn on E.A. O'Neil's Chesnut Hills Farm.
Photograph

B.J. Clark Dairy and Farm

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Description: Panoramic view of the B.J. Dairy and Farm. Shows fenced-in yard with various cows in front of a round barn.
Photograph

Bystrom Party

Date: 06 05 1948
Description: Group portrait of the Arthur and Lucille Bystrom party. Mr. Bystrom is a correspondent with Associated Press, and Mrs. Bystrom is the assistant manager of ...

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