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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Freedom Train, on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad station, 644 West Washington Avenue. The Freed... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A small crowd gathered around a slightly elevated speaker in Washington Square Park. A videographer recording the event is in the foreground, and park tree... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | A zoo keeper is standing beside Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, as she is eating her "birthday cake" to celebrate her birthday and second anniversary at th... |
| Date: | 07 09 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered for Picnic Day at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked in the foreground and alo... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of picnic day on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked near a farmhouse and a group is gathered near ... |
| Date: | 07 1951 |
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| Description: | 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 11 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Visitors at the dedication of the Korean War Veterans Memorial of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Stratcom action photo, with several protesters kneeling behind a line with soldiers on the other side. In the background are a fence, missile, rocket and t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Standing in the foreground in front of a fence are two people with cameras filming an African American man talking to a group of people who are Trump suppo... |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o... |
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