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Poster

Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
Photograph

Buckhorn Cheese Company

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home."
Photograph

Loading Sacks with Farmall A Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but...
Photograph

Blessed Sacrament Church Rectory

Date: 04 27 1944
Description: Blessed Sacrament Church Rectory, 2119 Rowley Avenue.
Photograph

William Lazarz, Yard

Date: 06 12 1938
Description: William Lazarz's backyard.
Photograph

Club Chanticleer

Date: 05 29 1935
Description: Club Chanticleer, exterior view across road from the south, with a Heileman's Old Style Lager beer sign suspended from posts on the lawn in front. The sign...
Photograph

Residential Rear Garden

Date: 07 27 1929
Description: Garden behind a house, location unknown, taken for McKay Nursery.
Photograph

Red Cliff Reservation Cemetery

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Description: Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery.
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Bluebell line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a woman encountering a bird an...
Photograph

International 574 Tractor

Date: 1973
Description: International 574 tractor with attached rollbar parked on a driveway.
Photograph

House with Picket Fence

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Description: View from the road of a frame house behind a picket fence, with cut work, shutters, and lightning rods by each chimney and a well in front of the fence. V...
Photograph

Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
Photograph

Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
Description: View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground...
Photograph

Barn and Farmer's House

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of barn and farmer's house of John Bass.
Photograph

The Robert Bashford House

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the Robert M. Bashford house on Pinckney and Gilman Streets. A man wearing a hat stands in the landscaped yard near a small child wearing ...
Photograph

Damaged Ford Sedan

Date: 11 18 1949
Description: Damaged Ford sedan, involved in Buckeye Road accident, behind Ed Voges Garage, 3826 Atwood Avenue.
Photograph

Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
Photograph

Wade House

Date: 1955
Description: Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became...
Photograph

Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
Postcard

The Philosopher Press

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Philosopher Press.

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