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Coaching Party Departing for Scottish Games

Date: 08 31 1909
Description: A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants...
Photograph

Armed Forces Day

Date: 1950
Description: Color guards marching past the Wisconsin State Capitol carrying flags as a crowd looks on.
Print

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
Poster

International War-Time Advertising Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Advertising poster celebrating the efforts of American farmers in wartime. Features a color illustration of a man in overalls with a Farmall tractor in the...
Poster

World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Photograph

International Truck Carrying Female Employees

Date: 1918
Description: International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing...
Photograph

Buy Bonds!

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Description: Display that advertises the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan or the Bond-a-Month-Plan. Wisconsin State Governor Walter J. Kohler...
Photograph

McCormick Grain Binder Decorated in Stars and Stripes

Date: 1899
Description: McCormick grain binder decorated with stars and stripes on the street in front of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. The location is possib...
Photograph

Waukesha CAP

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Description: Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o...
Book or Pamphlet

Younglove, Massey & Co. Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Younglove, Massey & Co., manufacturers of agricultural equipment. The cover features an engraved illustration of a hors...
Photograph

La Follette Supporters

Date: 05 16 1935
Description: William T. Evjue with five former members of the Wisconsin Legislature. Left to right they are: Charles Beggs, Barron Co.; John Johnson, Fond du Lac Co.; C...
Photograph

Martha Washington Tableau

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: The John Bell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present a tableau of Martha Washington's life at the Hotel Loraine for the bicentennial o...
Photograph

Loyalty Day Parade

Date: 03 31 1917
Description: Elevated view of men carrying flags marching down State Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol in a Loyalty Day Parade.
Photograph

Early Chicago & Northwestern Locomotive

Date: 07 04 1869
Description: The Camilla, a wood-burning locomotive that belonged to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The locomotive is decorated for the 4th of July, 1869.
Poster

William Henry Harrison Tribute

Date: 04 1841
Description: A notice published In Memory of President Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President of the United States, upon his death, April 4, 1841, at the age of 68. The tribut...
Photograph

Woman Buying War Bond from Santa Claus

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai...
Poster

"I Want You for U.S. Army"

Date: 1917
Description: Uncle Sam recruiting poster that says "I want You for U.S. Army". Poster has three different addresses for nearest recruiting offices.
Photograph

Parade through Town

Date: 
Description: View across unpaved street towards horses and buggies in a parade, with a crowd of people walking on the sidewalk in front of patriotically decorated store...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Abraham Lincoln in one of the famous portraits known as the Brady Profiles.

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