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Camp Randall

Date: 1862
Description: Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar...
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Champion Harvester and Binder

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo...
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Hillside Calendar April

Date: 1895
Description: Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie...
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The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
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G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
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J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
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Rural Route No. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Bonduel, Wisconsin, with a man driving a U.S. R.F.D. mail wagon along a road by a fenced yard, a barn, and a mailbox. Pr...
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Cross Country, Malt Syrup Label

Date: 1928
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Cross Country, Hop Flavored, Malt Syrup, Made and packed by, Rock Island Brewing Co....
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Kreme-O-Maltz, Malt Syrup Label

Date: 1929
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Kreme-O-Maltz, Light Hop Flavor, Malt Syrup." Distributed by the Oshkosh Maltz Produ...
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Hoard's Dairyman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Hoard's Dairyman, the "national dairy farm magazine" published by former governor and proponent of the Wisconsin dairy industry, William Demp...
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Aerial Blight Control Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Aerial Blight Control, Inc., with a man using a hoe while a crop duster sprays the field. Farm buildings and clouds are seen in the distance....
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Hoard's Dairyman Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Hoard's Dairyman, "The National Dairy Farm Magazine," with a bird's eye view of the company farm buildings, and a mailbox with an upraised fl...
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McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder

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Description: Letterpress print of a McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder. The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two horses. A farmhous...
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Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
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Buckeye Binder Advertising Card

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising card featuring a chromolithograph of men driving horses pulling Buckeye Binders in a race. The card reads at the top: "Buckeye leads the field....
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Fuller Clover Machine

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Description: Front and back of advertising card. The front features a color illustration of a man and woman standing in a field of red flowers. The back of the card fea...
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Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
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Keller's Advertising Cards

Date: 1880
Description: Front and back of advertising cards for the Excelsior Gleaner and Binder. Front features illustrations of a man using the machinery in a field. The back fe...
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Woman with Two Jersey Cows

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Description: An illustration of two jersey cows and a woman holding a milking pail. Text at bottom reads: Two Jersey Cows — Beauty and Jersey — The Property of the Illi...
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"Walnut Grove" — Homestead of the McCormick Family

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Description: View of Walnut Grove. Caption reads: "'Walnut Grove' — Homestead of the McCormick Family, Rockbridge Co., VA." In the foreground men are working to harvest...

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