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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Book or Pamphlet

Farmall Tractor Comfort Controls

Date: 1952
Description: Advertising illustrations of different comfort controls available on the McCormick H, M and MD tractors. Pictured here are the steering, handling and seati...
Photograph

Wayland Academy

Date: 01 20 1947
Description: Collage of pictures of student life at Wayland Academy.
Photograph

International Model 63 Truck

Date: 08 13 1923
Description: Close-up of the cab of an International Model 63 Truck. The truck was photographed inside a building, and there is a man in the driver's seat.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Man with Curly Hair

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Description: A studio portrait of an unidentified African-American man with curly hair and a moustache. He is wearing a suit jacket and vest.
Photograph

Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
Description: Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the...
Photograph

Group Portrait with Infant

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Description: Group portrait of four women, one man, and one infant standing outdoors in front of a brick wall covered in vines. The man is on the far left next to one w...
Photograph

People in Countryside, Cuba

Date: 1959
Description: A man wearing a straw hat is sitting on the ground holding a baby in the countryside in Cuba. A woman sitting behind him is looking at the photographer. Th...
Photograph

Algerian FLN Portrait

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing for a portrait inside a cave, wearing a turban.
Photograph

Webb TB Album: Horses Were Useful

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of ot...
Photograph

Webb TB Album: Andy, Again

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An...
Print

Commander Gatti's Jungle Yacht Ad

Date: 1938
Description: Advertisement for International trucks, featuring Commander Attilio Gatti and his wife with their "jungle yachts" in the "Belgian Congo." International mad...
Photograph

"Sun Trade Journal" Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 03 01 1903
Description: An article in Tokyo publication the "Sun Trade Journal" featuring Richard Ely, along with images of the main buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madis...
Photograph

Large Group of People Posing Outdoors

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Description: View down slope towards a large group of men, women, and children posing sitting and standing in a wooded field in front of a traveling photographer's wago...
Photograph

Fire Truck Initiation

Date: 06 1996
Description: "Fire Chief Bob Bogenschneider 'cuts' a cake with a fire axe."
Photograph

Jos Schlitz Brewing Co., Wash House

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Description: Interior view of men working in the wash house at Schlitz Brewery. At the top right is an inset of the exterior of the building.
Photograph

Baby Camel Born at Vilas Park Zoo

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: Two men in front of a wall of hay bales posing with a baby camel. The men are Zoo Director Harold Hayes (left) and Bellamy Seals (right, wearing a Zor Shri...
Magazine or Periodical

The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter

Date: 11 1969
Description: The front page of The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter published in November of 1969. The featured story is "Environmental Teach-In Planned."
Photograph

Groups of People Standing in Front of a Frame House

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Description: View across unpaved road towards four boys and three girls posing standing in front of a fence in front of a two-story house. A man, and a woman holding a ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

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Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own

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