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Postcard

Four Young People with Blackberries

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
Photograph

Model of Men Working with Farm Equipment

Date: 1932
Description: A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int...
Photograph

Native Americans and Harvester-Thresher at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 25 1933
Description: Native Americans in traditional dress test a harvester-thresher (combine) in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fai...
Photograph

Diorama of Development of Grain Harvesting Machines

Date: 1944
Description: An exhibit depicting the development of grain harvesting machinery at the Northwestern University Technological Institute. The exhibit includes scale model...
Photograph

Sewing Room at Iowa School

Date: 10 30 1917
Description: Interior view of tables, a chalkboard, and sewing machines inside the sewing room at Orange Township Consolidated School.
Photograph

Manual Training Room at Iowa School

Date: 10 30 1917
Description: Interior view of the manual training room at Orange Township Consolidated School. Work tables stand throughout the room and the walls are lined with cabine...
Photograph

International Harvester Number 234 Corn Harvester

Date: 04 03 1964
Description: Three-quarter rear view of a McCormick International Number 234 corn harvester in a studio against a white backdrop. The text at top reads: "234 Sheller" a...
Poster

McCormick-Deering WD-40 Fold-Out Poster

Date: 1937
Description: McCormick-Deering WD-40 Diesel Tractor poster. Poster folds into smaller convenient mailing leaflet. The text reads: "McCormick-Deering WD-40 Tractor, Amer...
Photograph

Cranberry Cleaning Equipment

Date: 1958
Description: Elevated view of a man loading freshly harvested cranberries into processing machinery. The machine appears to separate the berries from leaves and other d...
Photograph

Grading Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: Machinery used for grading cranberries. As the berries move through the machine the are sorted by size and deposited on the appropriate conveyor belt for p...
Photograph

Cranberry Cleaning Equipment

Date: 1960
Description: Men loading freshly harvested cranberries into a cleaning machine. Plant debris is still visibly mixed in with the berries.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 498-506

Date: 
Description: Cranberry growing has been and is one of the most profitable and picturesque branches of agriculture in Wisconsin. In the 1860's and 1870's, land previousl...
Photograph

McCormick No. 1 Harvester Thresher

Date: 02 28 1916
Description: Original caption reads: "Another front view of the McCormick No. 1 Harvester-thresher. The straw was expelled from the machine by a vibrating carrier exten...
Photograph

Deering No. 3 Harvester Thresher

Date: 03 12 1923
Description: Original caption reads: "Deering No. 3 harvester-thresher as first built in 1923. This machine was chain driven instead of gear driven as were the earlier ...
Photograph

Bale of Cut Corn Stalks

Date: 1900
Description: Bale of cut corn stalks.
Photograph

Mrs. J.L. Hill Checking Records

Date: 1941
Description: Mrs. J.L. Hill checking and keeping records of car numbers and sacks of Lerdoo Long White potato crop as it reaches the potato shed from the field.
Photograph

Men and Women with Corn

Date: 
Description: Group of men and women in a barn with piles of corn. They appear to be shucking the corn. Hay is piled in the hay mow above the group. Hand-tinted lantern ...
Photograph

Man in Tobacco Drying Shed

Date: 1907
Description: View of a man leaning on a support beam in a shed. Tobacco leaves are hanging in strips.

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