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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
Photograph

Dr. Blake's Home

Date: 1877
Description: View of Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac with a white picket fence in front of it. A man is standing in the grass in front ...
Photograph

Hile House

Date: 1921
Description: View from across road of the Hile House. This is where the actress and Confederate spy Belle Boyd died on June 11, 1900, in the front room, over the office...
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 ...
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 ...
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State Highway 140

Date: 05 1980
Description: A short black and white pole marks where a road converges with a state highway that stretches to the horizon. In the mid-distance before a hill is a railro...
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IH Demonstration Farm House

Date: 1924
Description: View from road of several people standing on the porch of an IH demonstration farmhouse. A barn is in the background on the right, with a painted sign on ...
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Woman with Parasol on Front Lawn of Farmhouse

Date: 1925
Description: View of a woman posing holding a parasol while sitting on the front lawn of a farmhouse on an International Harvester demonstration farm. Other people are ...
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IH Demonstration Farm at Aberdeen

Date: 07 1930
Description: View of the farmhouse, barn, and silo on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
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Crop Rotation Sign at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 07 1930
Description: A crop rotation sign stands near a dirt road leading to the farmhouse on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Soil and Crop Improvement Association

Date: 1918
Description: A man is leaning on the passenger side of an automobile marked: "Kankakee County Soil and Crop Improvement Association." Another man is sitting inside. The...
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Houses on a Rural Road

Date: 05 30 1916
Description: View down center of rural dirt road with houses along both sides in Black Hawk County. A man and horse are in a field on the left, near a sign that says: "...
Photograph

Dunville Notch

Date: 
Description: View of a mountain pass called Dunville Notch. A group of farmhouses are located among trees and a dirt road. Men gather near parked cars and a sign near t...
Photograph

McArthur Road

Date: 1975
Description: "This photo was taken on McArthur Road. The present day River View Mobile Home Park is now on the right side in the picture."
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Wade House Opening Day

Date: 06 06 1953
Description: The official opening of Wade House. Amid great fanfare, complete with an appearance by poet Carl Sandburg, Wade House opened to the public on June 6th, 195...
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge

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Description: View down railroad tracks of a railroad bridge, which has framed beams on the sides and top. A boy and girl are standing and posing on the bridge. Signs ar...
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Group of People Posing in front of House

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people posing in front of a house. A man is sitting on a horse-drawn McCormick binder on the right, and in the background is a barn. One man is po...
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Oldenburg Farm

Date: 08 04 1926
Description: View across barnyard towards a silo next to a barn. A truck is parked inside the open barn door. The sign painted on the side of the barn reads: "Oldenburg...

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