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Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl...
Book or Pamphlet

Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

Date: 
Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
Book or Pamphlet

Buffalo Pitts Threshers Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buffalo Pitts threshers sold by International Harvester. The cover features an illustration of four buffalo standing ne...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows. Includes an illustration of a steamboat on the water, and cotton plants.
Book or Pamphlet

River Scene

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of steamboat in the distance on a river (possibly the Wisconsin River).
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Book or Pamphlet

Falls of Kettle River

Date: 
Description: Depiction of the fall of Kettle River including a rock formation in the river and surrounding landscape filled with trees.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills.
Book or Pamphlet

Annual Report

Date: 1966
Description: Front cover of the International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a color photograph of a semi-truck navigating a road through the Rocky Mounta...
Book or Pamphlet

Best Tractors for Loggers

Date: 1925
Description: Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — January

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar front, with the month of January, 1893. At the top it reads: "1893 calendar presented to the farmers of the world with the compliments of Aultman,...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Drill Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover with the title: "The Three Greatest Empires," features an illustration of an Empire Drill in the foreground, and in the background a train tr...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th...
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Back cover of catalog with an illustration of two men using horse-drawn agricultural machinery in fields, while a group of Native American Indians look on....
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1888
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, featuring on the front an illustration of birds, mice, and flying insects near a wheat field. The back cover reads: "Manuf...
Book or Pamphlet

N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."
Book or Pamphlet

Four Legs Village, Entrance To Winnebago Lake

Date: 1856
Description: Lithographic view of Four Legs Village at the outlet of Lake Winnebago. There are is a person in a canoe on the river and a large tree in the foreground. S...
Book or Pamphlet

The Grande Chute, Fox River

Date: 1856
Description: Lithographic view of the Grande Chute Falls on the Fox River. There is a tent on the shore on the right.

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