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Battle of Chickamauga, 1863

Date: 1925
Description: "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ...
Photograph

Kennedy Dairy Wagons

Date: 1926
Description: A line of Kennedy Dairy horse-drawn wagons with drivers posing beside them. For Quaker Oats Farm.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down main street with storefronts on both sides, with large power lines along the sidewalks stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster (Argentina)

Date: 1929
Description: South American advertising poster for International trucks showing a color illustration of a truck hauling sacks in a desert-like environment with a horse-...
Poster

Chattanooga Cane Mill Advertising Poster (Colombia)

Date: 1926
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga brand cane mills showing men processing sugar in a tropical setting. Imprinted with "unicos importadores ...
Poster

Arcade Toys Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering miniature models produced by Arcade Toys. Includes illustrations of a toy tractor, plow, and wagon drawn by horses...
Poster

Chattanooga Chilled Plows Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga chilled plows. Includes a color illustration of a man using a walking plow behind two horses as viewed...
Poster

Chattanooga Cane Mill Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga cane mills featuring color illustrations of machines and a photograph of a rural sugar processing operati...
Poster

Deering Hay Press and Ensilage Cutter Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: South American advertising poster for Deering featuring color illustrations of hay presses and ensilage cutters. Imprinted with "Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bah...
Photograph

Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
Photograph

Men Posed with Stagecoach and International Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Six men posed with a stage coach and an International F-31 truck in front of the Circle Route Stage Line and Beaumont Stables storefront. The line ran from...
Photograph

Harvesting Grain Along Farm Hillside

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: Farmers harvesting grain with a horse-drawn McCormick-Deering no. 7 Hillside harvester-thresher (combine). The hillside machine incorporated a leveling dev...
Photograph

Farmers Grind Corn with International Harvester Equipment

Date: 12 10 1921
Description: Farmer and boy grinding feed with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven feed grinder and an International 8-16 tractor. Parked nearby are an International truck ...
Photograph

Unloading Oats at Stock Pavillon

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator.
Photograph

Unloading Oats at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavilion

Date: 12 09 1929
Description: A cargo of oats is unloaded from a horse-drawn wagon with the assistance from a tractor, via a grain elevator at the Stock Pavilion on the University of Wi...
Photograph

Paving University Avenue

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ...
Photograph

ESBMA Men Group Portrait

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Group portrait of ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men posing after clearing field for playground at Burr Jones Field, 1800 E. Washington Avenu...
Photograph

Cutting Grain

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
Photograph

McCormick "Marsh" Type Harvester

Date: 1929
Description: Men demonstrating the horse-drawn McCormick "Marsh type" harvester built ca. 1878. The men are wearing period dress and the photograph was most likely stag...
Photograph

McCormick Harvester and Wire Binder

Date: 1929
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick harvester and wire grain binder built in 1876. The scene is likely a historical re-enactment - possibly ...

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