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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Crowd examining a full size reproduction of the "first reaper" displayed on the bed of an International "Six Speed Special" truck parked in front of an Int... |
| Date: | 06 03 1899 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered on the main street to witness the delivery of McCormick binders, mowers and other machines to customers. McCormick Harvesting Machine Compan... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exhibit tent featuring International Harvester's gasoline engines. Men and women are milling around the tent. One woman is sitting in an International Auto... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered under a tent to view the new line of Osborne wagons at International Harvester's Osborne Division exhibit at the New York State Fair, Septem... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
| Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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| Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Farmall H and M tractors driven in a parade through a downtown street. The tractors are driven by two women and two men. One of the men has a small child o... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men driving Farmall tractors (including the Farmall A) in a parade through downtown Oskaloosa as townspeople look on. The parade is led by a truck with a l... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Crowds of Italians rushing to see Wilbur Wright and his airplane near Rome. After his triumphant demonstration of the "Flyer" in France the previous fall, ... |
| Date: | 09 05 1913 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in... |
| Date: | 01 1910 |
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| Description: | The grandstand at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet, the first international aviation event held in the United States. The plane on the ground near the center ... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin... |
| Date: | 07 14 1935 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a crowd at Royal Airport for Jimmie Allen model airplane flight contest and Air Circus at Royal Airport. |
| Date: | 04 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Auto accident involving Leo Maly and August Sternhagen vehicles, looking north, County Trunk M, between Speedway Road and Middleton Jct. Road. Leo Maly was... |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Ole Olson and Chic Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932" at the Orpheum. |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932." |
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