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Pontiac Cars Lined Up for the US Indian Band Parade

Date: 07 09 1930
Description: A man on a horse with Pontiac cars lined up on Wisconsin Avenue for the US Indian Band parade with State Capitol in the background. They played a concert a...
Poster

Chattanooga Slat-Mold Plow Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga slat-mold walking plows featuring color illustration of the implement. Also includes an inset illustra...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering grain binders. Includes color illustrations of farmers operating tractor and horse-drawn grain binders in the fiel...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
Photograph

Farm Plow

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two horses pull a spring tooth harrow. The farmer plans to plant barley.
Photograph

Farmers Shredding Corn

Date: 02 22 1938
Description: Farmers shredding corn with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven four-roll shredder run by a 10-20 tractor. Behind the tractor and on the right are horse-drawn ...
Photograph

Farmers Husking Corn

Date: 12 16 1935
Description: Farmers husking corn with a McCormick-Deering belt-driven Husker and Shredder run by a W-30 tractor on the farm of Earl Jones, Auld, Ontario, Canada.
Photograph

Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York

Date: 04 04 1934
Description: Three rings of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus are shown being set up for a performance in New York's Madison Square Garden.
Book or Pamphlet

German Flyer for Deering Grain Binders

Date: 1931
Description: German advertising leaflet for International Harvester's Deering line of grain binders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

German Flyer for Deering Mowers

Date: 1931
Description: German advertising leaflet for International Harvester's Deering line of mowers. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn mo...
Book or Pamphlet

German Flyer for McCormick Hay Machines

Date: 1931
Description: German advertising leaflet for International Harvester's McCormick line of hay machines. Features a color illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn mow...
Photograph

Famous Beverwyck Beer Delivery Truck and Wagon

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: International Model A-4 motor truck with a 185-inch wheel base, and a horse-drawn wagon hauling Famous Beverwyck Beer. The horse-drawn trailer contains bee...
Photograph

W-30 Tractor and Grain Drill

Date: 06 18 1937
Description: Farmer planting with a W-30 tractor and a 28-marker grain drill. The equipment was owned by Frank Gobert in Otterburn, Manitoba, Canada. The original capti...
Photograph

Farmers Cut Wood with Farmall F-30 Tractor

Date: 03 07 1938
Description: Men operating a belt-driven sawmill powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the property of W.A. Moorhead.
Photograph

Kennedy Milk Wagon

Date: 03 14 1934
Description: Horse-drawn Kennedy Mansfield milk wagon at 2126 Vilas Avenue on the corner of Vilas and Edgewood. Signage on side of wagon advertises "irradiated Vitamin ...
Print

Centennial of the McCormick Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Advertisement for International Trucks announcing the Centennial of the McCormick Reaper ("reaper centennial"). Features an illustration of a truck on the ...
Painting

Levi B. Vilas House

Date: 1938
Description: Levi B. Vilas built this house in 1853 at 521 North Henry Street on the corner of Langdon Street.
Book or Pamphlet

Case Centennial Plow Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the Case Centennial Plow. The brochure is titled "Plows on Parade" and tells the history of the steel plow business t...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for International motor trucks with color illustration of a truck and ghostly images of pioneers on horseback and oxen-drawn Conestoga w...
Photograph

Horse Pulling Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Horse pulling contest at an unidentified Wisconsin county fair. At the time, farmers were making the transition from horse-drawn equipment to tractors and ...

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