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Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Grass Cutting Machinery Advertising Catalog

Date: 1888
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features a color illustration of children riding a...
Photograph

Threshing Day

Date: 
Description: Threshing day in the fields at the Quinney family farm. View includes, two workers, a tractor powering the thresher, a horse-drawn cart full of straw, a t...
Photograph

J.C. Witmer Farm

Date: 07 13 1925
Description: A group of men use a tractor and horse-drawn manure spreaders in a barnyard on the farm of J.C. Witmer. The tractor appears to have a "Lessman" loader.
Photograph

Haying

Date: 1929
Description: Oscar Steinkopf and his horse Jim. They are haying on Steinkopf's 40-acre farm. The photograph was taken by Alvin Steinkopf, Oscar's son, a Milwaukee journ...
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
Drawing

Threshing

Date: 1945
Description: A threshing scene in a field. One man pitches grain into a threshing machine while standing on the load of grain in the wagon pulled by two horses. A secon...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages from The Oliver Alphabet

Date: 1889
Description: Interior pages of the pamplet, with illustrations for the letter "H" and "I."
Print

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1952
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a state fair ribbon superimposed on a silhouette of the state, and two vignettes of agricultural and industri...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Disk Harrows

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Description: View towards four men, each one with two-horse teams pulling disk harrows. Behind the teams is a barn with a sign that reads: "1900, F. Dixon, Orchard Grov...

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