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100,000th International Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd towards an executive who is speaking to workers assembled by the receiving department at Farmall Works to celebrate the 100,000th ...
Poster

The Health Of The Child Is The Power Of The Nation

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C...
Magazine or Periodical

International Trail Magazine Cover of Gatti Expedition

Date: 07 1938
Description: Front cover of International Trail magazine featuring images of the expedition of Attilio Gatti to the Belgian Congo in Africa. Includes a color ill...
Photograph

Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1938
Description: Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Photograph

Neils Hallanger Family in Front Yard

Date: 1877
Description: The Neils Hallanger family is gathered in their yard around a table with books on it and a love seat behind. The frame house has a bay window and a stone f...
Photograph

Family Reading by Picket Fence and House

Date: 1877
Description: A family is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence. Three of the adults are holding books, one man is holding a long pipe and a girl is holding ...
Photograph

Halver and Gunil Skavlem Posed in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18...
Photograph

William McFarland Family Pose in Yard

Date: 1880
Description: The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc...
Photograph

Andrew Amundsen Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Andrew Amundsen family is sitting around a table covered in a white knit cloth. Some of them are holding books. Their frame house is in the background....
Photograph

Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
Photograph

The Artist

Date: 1876
Description: Issued as a stereograph on green mount entitled "The Artist." Two men stand by a wagon on which is written "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." The flag on...
Photograph

Couple in Norwegian Clothes

Date: 1875
Description: Portrait of a couple in old-style Norwegian clothes, with the woman holding a book on her lap.
Photograph

Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
Photograph

Family of Fourteen

Date: 1871
Description: A family of fourteen in yard outside upright and wing frame house on stone foundation, with board fencing in the foreground.
Photograph

Funeral Party around Casket

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of a large funeral party assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as...
Photograph

Family around Table

Date: 1876
Description: A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it...
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of a Champion farm equipment catalog written in Russian, with a color illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A windmil...
Photograph

Robert La Follette, Sr., Speaking to Crowd

Date: 1924
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd with his arms spread wide for emphasis. This photograph is thought to have been taken during the 1924 presi...
Photograph

Woman Walking on Board Sidewalk

Date: 
Description: Woman wearing a large flower hat and holding an umbrella is walking on a board sidewalk of Main Street, passing the City Library. The brick office building...
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International Auto Wagon Bookmobile

Date: 1913
Description: An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ...

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