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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a Dexter washing machine powered by a stationary McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 horsepower type "M" engine. Photograph taken a... |
| Date: | 11 1919 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert Viall operating a belt-driven cream separator. The separator is powered by an International engine. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Man pumping water from a well with a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family of sixteen in yard around table set for coffee. Three men are in the background, one holding a shotgun. There is a frame house with shutters and s... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman cutting string beans at a kitchen counter. A pot on a stovetop and a sink are in the background. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | "Curiosities in Springdale, Wisconsin." A view of Nellie Springen, perhaps with her family, at a rocky outcropping enjoying coffee. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Photographic illustration of two men cutting wood with a saw powered by horses on a treadmill. The horses and treadmill were added by an artist's drawing. |
| Date: | 06 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Blankenburg are listening to the radio while working in their plot. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man and woman standing at an International Harvester chest freezer holding pieces of poultry and meat. They are standing in front of a curtain. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A girl handing a piece of poultry to a woman standing in an International walk-in cooler and freezer. They are standing in front of a curtain. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Man and woman (husband and wife?) with machinery powered by stationary engine. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man in open doorway of a farm building using a Mogul Jr. 1 H.P. stationary engine to power a belt-driven Keystone corn sheller. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a team of two horses working with an elevator or silo filler near farm buildings and a silo. A Titan stationary engine is powering the elevat... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men using a stationary engine to power a silo filler. Two men are loading the silo filler while another man is standing in a horse-drawn wagon. Another man... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A small girl using a Mogul Junior 1 HP stationary engine to power a washing machine located on the porch of a house. There is a cream separator on the left... |
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