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Painting

A Winter Day

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Description: On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre...
Painting

Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Ronald Reagan in Death Valley Days

Date: 1952
Description: Ronald Reagan sits on a horse in a publicity still for the TV show Death Valley Days. He wears a hat and a vest with a pocket watch fob attached to...
Photograph

Soldier on Horse

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry riding on horseback through a jungle in Panama. He is wearing wet fatigues and has a rifle slung over his shoulder.
Photograph

Scouts on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers on patrol in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. One soldier is walking along a dirt road carrying a large automat...
Photograph

Scout on Horseback, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement scout on horseback in the countryside in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. The scout is talking to a man who is standing ...
Print

Century of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of the book "Century of the Reaper" by Cyrus McCormick III ("Cyrusie"). The cover includes a color illustration of the senior Cyrus McCormick testing...
Print

"Chad Hanna" Lobby Card

Date: 1940
Description: Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-fox film "Chad Hanna."
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Photograph

Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
Print

The American Soldier, Light Artillery Corp.

Date: 1976
Description: "The figure on foot in the right foreground shows a sergeant of light artillery in the all blue uniform trimmed with yellow prescribed in January 1812, whe...
Photograph

Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
Print

"Wild Rovers" Lobby Card

Date: 1971
Description: Lobby card for the 1971 MGM film "Wild Rovers" featuring two men attempting to rope a wild horse in a snowy field.
Photograph

"Birth of a Nation" Street Battle

Date: 1915
Description: Street scene from the film "The Birth of a Nation" featuring a battle between soldiers on foot and members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback. The men on hor...
Photograph

Tourists Visit Universal City

Date: 1916
Description: Seven well-dressed tourists visit Universal City and pose with actor Neal Hart who is in cowboy costume and has his horse nearby. A water tower is visible ...
Photograph

Neal Hart on Location

Date: 1916
Description: Actor Neal Hart in cowboy costume on a horse being filmed with a Bell & Howell 2709 motion picture camera in the countryside near Universal City. A group o...
Poster

"Das Dorf am Fluss" (Village by the River) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: German film poster for the Dutch film, "Dorp aan de rivier." Silhouetted image in white of a man riding a horse, with a village in the background with a bl...
Poster

"Winter Wind" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Hungarian film, "Sirokkó." Illustrated image of the faces of two women and a man, with o...
Historical Object

Christmas Album Page

Date: 1899
Description: An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ...

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