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Drawing

Chippewas Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 
Description: Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Photograph

Growing Rice in Greenhouse

Date: 10 1926
Description: Growing rice in University of Wisconsin-Madson horticultural greenhouse.
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Photograph

Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

WDR-9 "Rice Field Special" Diesel Tractor

Date: 1946
Description: McCormick-Deering WDR-9 diesel "Rice Field Special" tractor.
Photograph

WR-9 "Rice Field Special" Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Farmers using a McCormick-Deering WR-9 tractor to haul a trailer loaded with timber. The words "rice field special" are on the tractor.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering W-9 and WD-9 Tractors

Date: 1942
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering W-9 and WD-9 standard tractors specially designed for wheat farmers and rice growers with larg...
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Stoddard Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 1941
Description: Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation.
Photograph

Mr. H. Puttemans using Chattanooga Reversible Plow

Date: 1919
Description: Mr. H. Puttemans turns under a failed rice crop by means of a horse-drawn Chattanooga Reversible Disc Plow at the Polytechnic School in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Print

Deering Ideal Rice Binder

Date: 1917
Description: General line catalog front and rear illustrations of a Deering Ideal rice binder. The text beneath the illustration reads, "Light Draft Because of Ball and...
Print

McCormick Improved Rice Binder

Date: 1917
Description: General line catalog illustration of a McCormick Improved rice binder. The text reads, "Made Extra Strong with Roller Bearings Well Distributed to Make the...
Poster

International Engines Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Chinese advertising poster for International engines. Features a color illustration of a stationary engine and two illustrations of engines powering machin...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Rice Fields

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph of North Vietnamese women cultivating rice. The caption supplied with the photograph reads: "With the determination to defeat the U.S...
Photograph

Harvesting Rice

Date: 
Description: View of a field of rice being harvested. A team of horses are pulling agricultural equipment, and several houses/outbuildings are in the distance. Caption ...
Photograph

Rice Shocking

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of people posing in a rice field, where they have been shocking the rice. A woman sits in a horse-drawn carriage, and in front of her, a you...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Rice Harvesting Equipment Brochure

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering rice harvesting equipment. Three photographs of rice harvesting equipment in use are bracketed on to...

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