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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
Description: Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
Photograph

Ringling Circus Wagon and Clowns

Date: 1910
Description: A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street.
Photograph

Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Sugar Beets

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A man on a large horse-drawn cart hauls a group of giant sugar beets. The two horses are stepping onto a dirt road. An inscription in the upper left corner...
Photograph

Field Photographer

Date: 1921
Description: A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag...
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Photograph

Madison old Central Fire Station

Date: 1900
Description: Madison old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster St. Three men driving horse-drawn ladder trucks in front of Madison Fire Station, 10 S. Webs...
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
Photograph

Round-up on C.O.D. Ranch

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Description: View of a round-up on C.O.D. Ranch. In the foreground, cowboys gather around a chuck wagon labeled, "L.N.Y. or K.C.O.D." The members of the Dodge City Band...
Photograph

Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: In the foreground Ethel Grandin and Francis Ford embrace at the foot of a grave. Behind them are three covered wagons, numerous men and women on horseback,...
Print

Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu

Date: 05 21 1949
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by (Clifford K.?) Berryman of "Dr. Truman's Utopia Elixir: Relief for Ev...
Photograph

International Cudahy Packing Co. Scout

Date: 01 19 1962
Description: International Cudahy Packing Co. Scout. Original caption reads: "Photograph No. MQ-303-- A New International Scout gets into the act with the Cudahy Cowboy...

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