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Book or Pamphlet

Deering Catalog Illustration

Date: 1888
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of small children an...
Print

International Harvester Engine Trade Card

Date: 1905
Description: Advertising card for International Harvester stationary engines. Features a color illustration of a young girl fetching water from a trough. A pump powered...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 
Description: Lantern slide illustration of the interior of the McCormick Reaper Works(?) as it appeared in 1860. Shows men stoking a boiler, working at a work bench, a...
Photograph

Munger's Mill and Dam

Date: 1895
Description: Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam.
Photograph

New Deal Road Work

Date: 02 27 1934
Description: CWA road crew leveling a grade on a county road near Westfield. The CWA undertook many road and utility projects during the Great Depression in order to p...
Photograph

Little Norway Building Interior

Date: 1948
Description: The interior of one of the buildings at "Little Norway," showing a group of objects of Norwegian decorative art and household utensils, including duck bowl...
Photograph

Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

Horse Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 11 1906
Description: Two men operating a hay press in a mown field. Two horses are hitched to the machine.
Photograph

Mexican Workers in Field

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p...
Photograph

Copper Pike

Date: 1936
Description: Hammered copper pike found with prehistoric bison bones.
Photograph

Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler with Quarry Blast Artifacts

Date: 04 09 1945
Description: Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler is shown with various explosive devices that injured three boys in a quarry blast explosion.
Photograph

Woman and Boy Raking Leaves

Date: 04 13 1945
Description: Mrs. Lillian Helfrecht raking her lawn with the help of her neighbor, six-year-old George Armstrong. George helped Mrs. Helfrecht with various chores becau...
Photograph

Interior of Repair Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Two men in a repair shop, probably the repair shop of Leslie Werner. Leslie Werner is identified as the man wearing the hat on the left.
Photograph

Bicycle Repair Shop

Date: 
Description: Two men in a repair shop, probably the Repair Shop of Leslie Werner. Leslie Werner is identified as the man wearing the hat on the right.
Photograph

Picnic Point Work Day Blue Jeans King And Queen

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f...
Photograph

Madison Street Construction

Date: 1913
Description: Street construction at the corner of Regent and Roby Road in Madison. The home of the photographer, W.H. Dudley, is in the background
Photograph

Seedling Nursery

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of a single worker trimming neat rows of seedlings at a Wisconsin State Nursery.
Photograph

Goodland Pickling Pears

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland pickling pears.
Photograph

Grasshopper Bait Station

Date: 07 1938
Description: Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth.

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