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| Description: | Sid posing with a clay model of Sambo, one of the Milwaukee County Zoo's gorillas during the 1950s. Sid is wearing a suit and has a cigar in his mouth. Beh... |
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| Description: | Display of a "Model Farm" made entirely of corn. Exhibited at Gage County Corn Show. |
| Date: | 09 30 1924 |
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| Description: | Model farm display in a McCormick office. The display is set up on a table and there is a backdrop of hills and fences behind the model barn, outbuildings,... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Three children sitting outdoors around an elderly man. The man is wearing a ship captains hat and is holding a wooden model of a ship in his lap. The group... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three children and two adults are stand and sitting around an elderly man wearing a ship captains hat. He is holding a wooden model of a ship. The group of... |
| Date: | 01 23 1927 |
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| Description: | Miniature farm display with fences, tractor, water tower, and farm buildings. Pennants on the front of the display read: "McCormick-Deering Farm Equipment,... |
| Date: | 06 27 1927 |
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| Description: | Group of miniature models on a table. The models include a dump truck, tractor, wagon, and harvester-thresher. |
| Date: | 08 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Display of miniature of truck that crossed the Sahara. There are maps of part of Europe and the continent of Africa, and signs on the display read, in part... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A portable exhibit in a box with a hinged lid has been set up on a stand covered with corrugated paper. A sign inside the box lid describes the benefits of... |
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| Description: | Scale model made to illustrate harvesting methods. |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the decorating committee for the annual Founders' Day Dinner for the Wisconsin Alumni Club looking at a model of Bascom Hall. From left are Sara... |
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| Description: | Group of small-scale model houses on the lawn in a school yard. Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
| Date: | 04 05 1929 |
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| Description: | A miniature model with a sign that reads, in part: "Miniature Model of the First Four-Wheeled Stock Truck to Cross the Sahara Desert." |
| Date: | 04 05 1929 |
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| Description: | A miniature model with a sign that reads, in part: "Miniature Model of the First Four-Wheeled Stock Model Motor Vehicle to Cross the Sahara Desert." |
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| Description: | A diorama in the museum galleries of the excavation of an Indian rockshelter, an archaeological site in Sauk County. This was part of an exhibit at the Wis... |
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| Description: | A young girl wearing a bathing suit is standing in almost knee-deep water in a Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. A small excursion boat is in the wat... |
| Date: | 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A man in hat and glasses is unpacking boxes. In the foreground on top of a box is a sculpture of a plowing scene. Original caption reads: "17th-century plo... |
| Date: | 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Intricate detail of scale model is shown in 1900 hay rake. Museum usually draws 12,000 visitors during May to October season, expects big r... |
| Date: | 04 13 1973 |
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| Description: | "Alter-Ego in Miniature." Portrait of a woman holding two miniature tractors. Typewritten copy reads: "The Famous International 4270 Conventional Transtar ... |
| Date: | 08 06 1914 |
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| Description: | Model of a Hay Stacker, with a miniature man with horse, on a table. There is a backdrop behind. |
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