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Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Poster

McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Photograph

View Across Camp Randall

Date: 09 10 1875
Description: View looking west across the area once occupied by Camp Randall during the Civil War and towards the Breese Stevens farm property. The Madison Centennial ...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
Photograph

Kathryn Mann on Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Kathryn Mann of Columbia, Pennsylvania, sits on a Farmall A tractor while Walter Dupes, salesman for J.B. Hostetter & Sons of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania,...
Photograph

Beulah Ogden on Farmall Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Beulah Ogden, a participant in the "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, rides a Farmall tractor through an 88-acre farm owned...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Rice Fields

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph of North Vietnamese women cultivating rice. The caption supplied with the photograph reads: "With the determination to defeat the U.S...
Photograph

Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
Photograph

IH Dealer Collecting Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men from Anderson Motor Sales, an International Harvester dealership, collect a load of metal scrap form the farm of Frank Cook. The men are loading the me...
Photograph

Reunion of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 06 18 1890
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the reunion of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, held at the farm of George W. Dibble in Rock County. Back row, left...
Print

Valentine Greetings

Date: 
Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Collective

Date: 08 29 1967
Description: A group of people sit and stand outdoors with a group of baskets at a collective farm near Phat Diem, North Vietnam, visited by American journalist David S...
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...
Photograph

Young Girl with '76 Flag Watching Truck Caravan

Date: 09 25 1975
Description: Seven-year-old LuRae Criscione watches the International Harvester United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Caravan. LuRae is dressed in red, white, and blu...
Magazine or Periodical

Women Join the Field Artillery (Tractorettes)

Date: 1942
Description: Original title reads: "Women Join the 'Field Artillery'" as International Harvester Dealers Teach Power Farming to an Army of 'Tractorettes.'" Description...

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