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Book or Pamphlet

Empire Corn Drills Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Empire Corn Drills sold by International Harvester. Features an illustration of a man walking behind a horse-drawn corn...
Book or Pamphlet

New Low Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the New Low Manure Spreader with the text: "easy to load." The cover includes a photograph of a man with a horse...
Photograph

Holsmiller Farm

Date: 1920
Description: The Spensley Furnace on the Holsmiller farm.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Print

McCormick's Reaper and Mower Flyer

Date: 1859
Description: Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Broadcast Fertilizer Sower Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Kentucky line of broadcast fertilizer sowers. Features an illustration of a farmer "liming fa...
Photograph

Man Standing in front of Farm House

Date: 
Description: Man wearing coveralls standing in front of a small farm house. He has a towel over one arm and is holding a skillet in the other hand. There is a cat eatin...
Photograph

Century House Ceramics

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: Jane Scalbom and Jane Gilbert Peterson opened a ceramics studio in one of the oldest buildings in Madison, the Century House, 3029 University Avenue. They ...
Photograph

Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...
Photograph

John Liegeois at Dutton Farm

Date: 1900
Description: John Liegeois at Dutton Farm. John had an identical establishment in Little Suamico. Joeseph Jr. and John and Louis Liegeois and Rachel were born in (Robi...
Photograph

Miniature Farm Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: A tabletop display of a miniature farm, including a house, barn, garage, windmill, fences, plants, tractor, truck, animals, and two water pumps. A sign on ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Eclipse Wind Engine

Date: 
Description: Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working...
Photograph

International Model A-8 Truck

Date: 12 22 1937
Description: View from side of road of an International Model A-8 truck marked "C.P. Ward, Inc." hauling a trailer with a large crane. One man is driving the truck, ano...
Photograph

International Truck with Trailer

Date: 1939
Description: Two men speak to one another as a woman wearing an apron enters a trailer used by the Ohio Edison Company. The trailer is attached to an International D-2 ...
Photograph

Tom Amlie's Home

Date: 
Description: Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types."
Photograph

Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
Photograph

Men with Lime Pulverizer

Date: 1920
Description: A man is feeding limestone into a "Jeffrey lime pulver" powered by an International tractor. A pile of rocks is in the foreground, and a farmhouse and anot...
Photograph

Farm Equipment in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: A plow is sitting in the snow in front of farm buildings and a woodpile. The photograph was likely taken to illustrate the hazards of improper equipment st...
Photograph

Farm Implements in Snow

Date: 1915
Description: Several farm implements, including a grain binder and mower, sitting in a barnyard covered with snow. A shed, farmhouse, and woodpile are in the background...
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1916
Description: Rear view of a man leading two horses pulling a mower across a field. In the background is a farmhouse, a barn, and several other farm buildings.

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