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Photograph

The Leinenkugel Brewery

Date: 1898
Description: Elevated winter view of the Leinenkugel Brewery seen "from top of Mill." Originally called "Spring Brewery," Jacob Leinenkugel opened his brewery in 1867 i...
Painting

Seifert Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of farm.
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Photograph

Jersey Dairy Cattle Herd

Date: 09 23 1895
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat stands near a herd of Jersey dairy cattle grazing in the barnyard of W.H. Bradley.
Photograph

Augusta Steers

Date: 1895
Description: Steers, possibly a shorthorn variety, graze on a fenced-in pasture on the farm of Chas. Silkworth six miles from Augusta. Trees and a large house stand on ...
Photograph

Hogs at Feeding Time

Date: 10 12 1895
Description: Forty-nine hogs at feeding time on the farm of William Miller. The hogs are eleven-months old and weigh approximately 260 lbs each. A wagon and horse team ...
Painting

Bayfield Main Street, 1870

Date: 1885
Description: Main Street in Bayfield in 1870 with four cows standing in the street.
Photograph

Home of Chas Kohlman

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising the prosperous life of Chas Kohlman, a Northern Wisconsin farmer. The image at the center of the card shows the Kohlman fami...
Photograph

Farm of Chris Klein near Phillips, Price County

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The card features an ima...
Photograph

The Hay Crop

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising the large amounts of hay that can be growth in northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men posing on and beside a wagon ca...
Painting

Sunrise on Lake Monona

Date: 1884
Description: Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance.
Print

Ninth International Congress Banquet Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Interior menu pages of the Ninth International Medical Congress, with a woman in a head wrap and skirt decorated with stars pouring liquid from a jug into ...
Book or Pamphlet

C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of Buckeye harvesting machinery catalog, featuring a group of men and horses resting under the shade of a tree. In the background is a field wi...
Print

Holt's Lightning Hay Knife

Date: 1881
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man and young boy outside during winter. The man is using a Lightning Hay knife to cut the ha...
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Covers

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back cover of binder catalog. The front cover has a color illustration of a young boy making a crude drawing on a wall of a horse-drawn binder wi...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Document

La Crosse & Milwaukee Rail Road Company Stock Certificate

Date: 1857
Description: Engraved document certifying that D. Henry Rockwell of Oconomowoc is entitled to one share of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Rail Road Company worth one hundr...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
Photograph

J.L. Miller and Co.

Date: 1889
Description: Outdoor group portrait of, left to right, William F. Fuller, James L. Miller, and Albert Zimmerman standing outside their shop at 24 W. Mifflin Street. In ...

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