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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Photograph

Oxen Pulling Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled.
Photograph

Hauling Logs With Oxen

Date: 1880
Description: Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen.
Photograph

Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
Photograph

Railroad Construction

Date: 1890
Description: Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used.
Photograph

Pine River & Stevens Point RR Locomotive

Date: 03 1876
Description: Side view of the locomotive purchased by the Pine River and Stevens Point Railroad, being hauled over land from Lone Rock to Richland Center. In the backgr...
Photograph

Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
Painting

Bridge Over Mississippi River

Date: 1891
Description: A painting of the new (as of 1891) bridge over the Mississippi River in La Crosse. The bridge was built by the Clinton Bridge Co. Captions read: "North sid...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Print

View of Sparta, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon.
Print

Deering Trade Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card for Deering harvesting machinery showing young boys operating a grain binder drawn by oxen. The caption reads "the Deering binder at work ...
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Photograph

Farmer and Ox-Drawn Mower Near Lake

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer is standing next to a mower pulled by two oxen in a field next to a lake.
Photograph

Man Operating Ox-Drawn Mower in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A man wearing dress clothes and holding a raised switch is driving an ox-drawn mower down a path in a field. The man is also wearing a bowler or derby hat ...
Photograph

Men with Oxen at Mill

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men are standing with three or four teams of oxen pulling wagons at what appears to be a mill. Several buildings and a chute are in the backgrou...
Photograph

Logging Near Rice Lake

Date: 1872
Description: A group of loggers poses for a group portrait amongst cut logs in a snow-covered wooded area. The men in the middle have their axes in hand, while other me...
Print

Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
Photograph

Men with Oxen

Date: 1855
Description: Sod-breaking plow with five yoke of oxen.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Buckeye Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Back cover featuring a chromolithograph of a young boy driving a team of oxen pulling a Buckeye Twine Binder. At the bottom is a letter that says, in part:...
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers with two teams of oxen.

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