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Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Bindlochine Catalog Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Photograph

Man, Dog and Chickens

Date: 03 03 1947
Description: Irvin Thompson with Andy, a chicken retrieving dog, placing an escaped chicken into a crate at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, 633 West Doty Street...
Photograph

Seminole Family

Date: 1904
Description: A large Seminole Native American family posed outdoors as a group, including men, women and children who are all wearing Seminole native clothing. There ar...
Photograph

Farmhouse, Animals, and Family

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Description: View of a family posing near their farmhouse and animals. One woman rides a horse-drawn Bain-Wagon, from Bain works, established in 1882. A man stands in f...
Photograph

Grulke Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Steve and Nancy Grulke and children, Alison, Cassandra, and Paul, live at W2346 Zion Church Rd (Section 30). Steve has lived here all his life. Steve and N...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Two women, a man, and a dog are standing next to a baby who is sitting in a baby carriage. The group is in front of a two-story frame house. On the far rig...
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
Photograph

People in Front of Farm Buildings

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Description: In the center is a man posing sitting on a plow pulled by a team of two horses. In front of him is a dog, and another dog is lying behind the plow. Standin...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified family group, including a man, woman, girl, and infant posing sitting in the yard in front of a wooden house with...
Photograph

People Posing with Dogs and Chickens

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Description: Group portrait of a man, two women, and two dogs posing standing among chickens on the snow-covered ground in front of a small wooden building, perhaps a c...
Photograph

Man on a Horse

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Description: Outdoor view of a man posing sitting on a horse in a field, with a dog and some chickens in the background.
Photograph

Woman with Chickens

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Description: View uphill towards a woman standing next to a wooden structure in a yard with a dog, and chickens behind a wire fence.
Print

Hotel Noble Menu

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Description: Front covers of gate fold Hotel Noble menu, with two "hillbilly" figures: one stands barefoot and holds a rifle while a dog sleeps at his feet; the other i...
Photograph

Recreational Therapy Puppets

Date: 1948
Description: Thirteen puppets, representing a mixture of human and animal shapes, hang by their strings. A caption on the rear of the image identifies them as recreatio...
Photograph

Two Girls Standing in Yard

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Description: View across lawn towards two girls standing at the corner of a brick building. There is a large building in the background. One of the girls appears to be ...
Photograph

TD-24 — Road Building

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man working on building a road. In the background is a dog, and farm buildings. Subject: "TD-24 — Road Building." Where Taken: "MW." Informa...

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