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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

Group of Women

Date: 12 15 1935
Description: Group portrait of seventeen women posing behind a dinner table, 24 W. Mifflin Street. Taken for Laura Anderson.
Photograph

Manchester's Vacuum Cleaner Show Window

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: Manchester's window display with five Hoover vacuum cleaners.
Photograph

First Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: First Farmall Cub tractor produced at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
Photograph

Animated Display Window

Date: 07 24 1947
Description: Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto...
Photograph

Multiple Views of Crandon

Date: 1895
Description: Collage of multiple views of buildings and stores in Crandon.
Photograph

Family and Wagon

Date: 1900
Description: A family of seven, including a baby, posing on and around a wagon with bales of hay in rocky terrain. There are steep hills behind them.
Photograph

Mrs. F.V. Burcalow with Children and Airplane

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: Mrs. F.V. Burcalow is shown with her two children, Vicki and Larry, with an airplane. Mrs. Burcalow is learning how to fly while her husband, an assistant ...
Photograph

Wayland Academy

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

International Harvester Display Statement

Date: 1946
Description: Sign at International Harvester's Ohio State Fair display reading: "Read the Statement Below - It answers the $64.00 Question!" The lower sign is entitled,...
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

Family in front of Frame House

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Description: Three boys sitting on a wooden fence near a gate where a women and man are standing next to a baby carriage with a seated infant, in front of a frame house...
Photograph

Double Exposure with a Ho-Chunk Girl and Woman

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Description: Double exposure, one exposure of a studio full-length portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing in front of a painted backdrop wearing several necklaces,...
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
Photograph

Aunt Helen Seated on Arm of Willie's Chair

Date: 01 01 1900
Description: Aunt Helen seated on the arm of Willie's chair. Framed pictures are on the wall behind them.
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

Images of Women Compilation

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Description: A compilation of seven different images into one, all of either the headshots of women or full-length portraits of women. The edges of the images are rough...

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