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Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Husking Corn

Date: 1903
Description: Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground...
Poster

P&O Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: South African advertising poster for P&O plows, "made especially for South African conditions" and "sold by Champions Limited, Durban, Bloemfontein, East L...
Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
Photograph

Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
Photograph

Farm Girl Feeding Calf

Date: 1921
Description: Young girl feeding a calf from a bucket while standing in a field.
Photograph

Elwyn Reynolds with Grand Champion Steer

Date: 10 29 1931
Description: Elwyn Reynolds, from Lodi, with grand champion shorthorn steer at the fat stock show, standing in front of University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavilion.
Photograph

Mr. Olson with Brown Swiss Bull

Date: 08 25 1931
Description: Mr. Olson is standing outdoors with a Brown Swiss bull at the Dane County fair. Automobiles and wagons are parked along a wooden building in the background...
Photograph

George. Drumasky with Champion Brown Swiss Bull

Date: 08 25 1931
Description: George Drumasky with champion Brown Swiss bull at the Dane County fair.
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily brand of cream separators showing a woman drinking a cup of water from a hand-pump, and ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Ensilage Cutters Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of farmers using an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. At the bo...
Photograph

Krueger Children Feeding Calves

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger feeding calves through the barn door.
Photograph

Twin Calves

Date: 04 1906
Description: Edgar Krueger with twin calves wearing small ox collar.
Print

Bluebell Cream Harvesters Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Bluebell cream harvesters (cream separators). Includes an illustration of a young girl carrying a bucket and herding tw...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: We Never Stop

Date: 1915
Description: A man is driving an old-fashioned car with three women passengers on a road littered with cows. The driver has hit a cow with the car, causing it to fly in...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Men Riding a Cow

Date: 1916
Description: Three men ride a dairy cow on a dirt road, while a fourth pulls at the cow's tail. Of the three men, one is holding a tennis racket, one is holding a golf ...
Photograph

4-H Club Week

Date: 02 26 1949
Description: Mary Englehart, a member of the Silver Badgers 4-H Club, standing inside a barn with her Holstein heifer.
Photograph

Walworth County Fair

Date: 1945
Description: Young people on the fairgrounds stand in front of a tent with calves competing at the fair. Richard Quinney stands on the far right.

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