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International Harvester Postcard — Siberia

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of horses pulling a grain binder. Man seated on machine. Caption reads "Siberia — A Harvest Scene near Tobolsk, where American Harvesting Machines...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ...
Map or Atlas

Ethnic Stocks Map

Date: 1940
Description: Map of the people of Wisconsin according to ethnic stocks.
Photograph

How To Wear a Sari

Date: 03 13 1954
Description: Anna Chandapillal (right) demonstrates how to pleat the front of a sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left).
Photograph

How To Wear a Sari

Date: 03 13 1954
Description: Anna Chandapillal (right) pleats the shoulder drape of the sari modeled by Lenore Gourdin (left).
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — India

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in India: men and women working in fields. Ori...
Photograph

Foreign Harvesting Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Men with hand harvesting tools and an ox-drawn hay cart in a foreign field (possibly India?).
Photograph

Nusserwanjee Merwanjee Patell

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Description: Portrait of N.M. Patell, seated in front of a painted backdrop.
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Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Dean John Bowers

Date: 06 17 1956
Description: Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's minister of welfare and health, is shown in a speedboat on Lake Mendota with Dean John Z. Bowers, of the University of Wiscon...
Photograph

Indian Ambassador to the United States

Date: 06 23 1956
Description: Guest speaker at the Students from India Attending Mid-Western Colleges and Universities convention is G.L Mehta, second from left, India's ambassador to t...
Photograph

Ox Cart and International Harvester Tractor in India

Date: 1967
Description: Men follow an oxcart with an International Harvester tractor in India.
Photograph

Thanks for Hospitality

Date: 07 20 1959
Description: Two members of the University of Wisconsin's India Association smile their thanks to Governor Gaylord Nelson for "the wonderful hospitality extended toward...
Photograph

Women Using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C...
Photograph

Three Women Gathering Food in Ceylon

Date: 1910
Description: Three women standing in a row. Two of the women are carrying food in baskets and pottery on their head. They are unclothed above the waist and wearing clot...
Photograph

Woman and Man Grinding Grains

Date: 1910
Description: A woman and man grinding a variety of grain in a large stone mortar. The woman is wearing a blouse and skirt, the man is wearing white pants and is barefoo...
Photograph

Two Women with Flowers

Date: 1910
Description: Two women surrounded by flowers in the Philippines. They are wearing "voluminous blouses of a sheer material," as Carrie Chapman Catt describes in her jour...
Photograph

Workers in a Tea Field

Date: 1910
Description: Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in...
Photograph

Madison Council of United Church Women Interfaith Tea

Date: 07 07 1961
Description: Several persons from foreign lands were special guests of honor at the tea. Shown with Frances Rieser (third from left), are Mrs. T.C. Pillay of India, Edu...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 1957
Description: Group of men posing in front of a structure on a steel plant construction plant in Bhilai, India.
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Henna Artist Ishrat

Date: 2016
Description: A young Indian woman, Ishrat, is sitting in a lawn chair in her booth at a fair. She is wearing a traditional Punjabi outfit (the salwar kameez) and is off...

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