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State Fair Side Show Attractions

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Description: State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a Persian horseman on the side of a cliff looking down upon ...
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Portrait of Mrs. Ed Dixon

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Description: Studio portrait of Mrs. Ed Dixon dressed to advertise druggist J.F. Stillman.
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Moving Pictures at Inter-County Fair

Date: 1905
Description: A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi...
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Osceola Commerce Club Band

Date: 04 21 1928
Description: Elevated view of the Commercial Club Band posing at a rail yard with a newly arrived shipment of McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separators. The cream...
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Dealer Preparing Truck

Date: 11 22 1937
Description: McCormick-Deering dealer Edward Gumienick smoking a cigar as he is loading dairy equipment into his International truck for a sales "canvassing" trip. His ...
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International Harvester Spreader Delivery Day

Date: 04 25 1914
Description: Farmers posing with their new International horse-drawn manure spreaders in the streets of a rural town. The "spreader delivery" day was organized for publ...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Photograph

Ray-O-Vac Bond Selling Winners

Date: 01 1943
Description: Group portrait of 24 winners of Ray-O-Vac bond selling contest.
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Children at Orpheum Theater

Date: 08 15 1930
Description: Children dressed as circus performers at the Orpheum Theatre, inside the lobby which is advertising "Swing High."
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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
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State Fair Stamp

Date: 1915
Description: Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume...
Photograph

Industry Building at the Fair

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Description: Interior view of the crowds in the Wisconsin Industry Building and the building's unusual art deco decoration. Few photographs depict African Americans at ...
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Nebraska State Fair Tent

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'...
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Cream Separator and Milker Display

Date: 1932
Description: Two men stand next to cream separators and milkers on display inside I.E. Lillegaard's International Harvester dealership. Cans of oil stand in the foregro...
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State Bank

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior of brick building. A banner hangs over the entrance, and three men wearing hats sit on the steps near the front door. Another building is on the l...
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Dining Tent

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Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
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Ottawa Implement Co.

Date: 05 03 1929
Description: Two men sit on wicker furniture in the showroom of the Ottawa Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The showroom filled with tractors, ...
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Showroom at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 01 14 1929
Description: Tractors, plows, harrows and other farm equipment on display in the showroom of the Muscatine Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Ban...

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