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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph color illustration from the back of an advertising catalog printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing an arch commemorat... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | South American advertising poster for Deering horse-drawn and tractor-drawn grain drills distributed by International Harvester Company Argentina. Imprinte... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | South American advertising poster for Deering featuring color illustrations of hay presses and ensilage cutters. Imprinted with "Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bah... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a courtroom scene framed with a draped American flag and th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| Description: | Diamond D-X Service Station, 118 King Street. (Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.) The view is across S. Webster Street looking up King Street toward the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing C... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Vehicles parked inside the cavernous Royal Auto Body shop are attended to by workers. |
| Date: | 09 19 1930 |
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| Description: | RKO movie advertisement on an Ed Klief Transfer Line truck. The U.W. Meat Market at 728 University Avenue is in the background. |
| Date: | 10 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers posing on the balcony of the State Bank of Wisconsin addition under construction, 1 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 09 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Addition to State Bank of Wisconsin under construction, with construction workers. 1 W. Main Street. |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester grain drills. Cover features a color illustration of a farmer in a f... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Cover of advertising catalog for the Empire Jr. line of grain drills manufactured by the American Seeding-Machine Company and sold by International Harvest... |
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| Description: | Caption on rear: "Modern production line methods such as this are praised by packaging experts for their efficiency and cleanliness." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Champion farm equipment catalog written in Russian, with a color illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A windmil... |
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