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McCormick Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a binder pulled by two horse...
Photograph

Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
Photograph

"McCormick Day" in Small Rural Town

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of farmers lined up in horse-drawn wagons loaded with their new McCormick farm machines. Their wagons are adorned with "McCormick" signs and ...
Photograph

Streetcar Track Construction on Capitol Square

Date: 1905
Description: Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot...
Photograph

Railroad Shops Under Construction

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Description: Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground...
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street.
Photograph

Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
Photograph

Woodruff Mill

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Description: Bissell Lumber Company. Workers are posing outdoors in front of a building. Cut trees can be seen in the background. A horse-drawn vehicle is on the right...
Photograph

R.E. Cox Cotton Gin

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by R.E. Cox. Two men stand beneath the building's overhang and a mule or horse-drawn wagon stands to the left of the bu...
Photograph

Cream Separator at Farmhouse

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove...
Poster

Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Threshers

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering stationary threshers featuring a color illustration of an all-steel thresher at work in a field and illustrations ...
Photograph

Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

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Description: Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat.
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Photograph

Loading a Bobsled with Logs

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Description: Group of men posed standing near and on two bobsleds loaded with logs and pulled by teams of four horses. There is an empty sled pulled by a team of four h...
Photograph

Sheboygan Falls Tannery

Date: 1878
Description: Elevated view of several buildings making up the Sheboygan Falls Tannery, which was owned by proprietor C.S. Weisse. Weisse is at the far right, standing w...
Photograph

Travelling "de luxe" in Russia, by Horse-Drawn Sled

Date: 1918
Description: Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Morris, Commanding Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in heavy fur clothing, laying in a sled with a horse harnessed and ready ...
Photograph

Log Bridge Under Construction

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell

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