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Milking Machine

Date: 1912
Description: Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building.
Photograph

Junior Achievement Award

Date: 12 09 1959
Description: Five members of a Junior Achievement group made up of representatives of the four Madison High Schools accept a plaque for best research in developing new ...
Photograph

Isaac Singer with George Zieber

Date: 
Description: Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine.
Photograph

Singer Examining a Sewing Machine

Date: 
Description: Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine.
Manuscript

I.M. Singer's Will

Date: 07 16 1870
Description: The front page of the last will and testament of Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Print

James Oliver, Inventor of the Chilled Plow

Date: 
Description: Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend."
Print

Fortieth Anniversary of the First Flights of the Wright Brothers Menu

Date: 12 17 1943
Description: Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — February & March

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Photograph

Dexter Curtis Trunks and Valises

Date: 
Description: View from street of two men standing just inside the open doorway of the storefront. Trunks are displayed on pallets set up on the wooden sidewalk. Dexter ...
Photograph

Student Creates Game Machine

Date: 02 03 1964
Description: Wisconsin high school student Jeffrey Mattox is shown playing a game of tic-tac-toe against the machine he constructed. A screen shows the squares, and a m...
Photograph

Coin for Reaper Centennial

Date: 
Description: Coin for Reaper Centennial with portrait of C.H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper.
Print

Engraving "Men of Progress, American Inventors"

Date: 05 22 1935
Description: Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors."
Drawing

"Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern"

Date: 
Description: "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion.
Print

Testing of the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1915
Description: Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr...
Photograph

Anvil Block Used for Building the First Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: Anvil block sitting outdoors. The block was used by Cyrus McCormick for building the first reaper.
Photograph

Advertisement for History of International Harvester Company

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement with illustrations on the progress of the International Harvester company.
Photograph

Portrait of George S. Parker

Date: 1886
Description: Quarter-length, formal studio portrait of George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin.
Poster

Practical Aeronautics

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I...
Photograph

Commodore Heggestad with "Monona-Mobile"

Date: 1955
Description: View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his...

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