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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| 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: | 12 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen... |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Frank Lyons feeds a flock of turkeys on the Frank Lyons farm, Verona. |
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| Description: | Design in brown for Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A farmer driving a team of three horses to harvest corn with a corn binder. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Plowing champion Carl Shoger holding a trophy on his Farmall F-20 tractor. Original caption reads: "Carl Shoger and his F-20 and Little Genius Plow and 193... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat... |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting a youthful August Derleth walking by a graveyard that is haunted by ghosts and spirits. Derleth was fo... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deerings Big Ball twine. The poster features an illustration of a man using a binder in a farm field, along with insets of... |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising McCormick-Deering grain binders. The poster features a headline reading: "McCormick-Deering Grain Binders; Direct Descendants of the Wor... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Spanish advertising poster for use in South American advertising the McCormick "Hummingbird" grain header. The poster features two color illustrations of t... |
| Date: | 04 28 1939 |
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| Description: | The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 09 1996 |
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| Description: | "When Pioneer Days was celebrated, visitors were given the chance to view the community from a helicopter." |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A black and white International Harvester Scout 4x4 truck is towing a Sesame Street themed parade float. Muppe... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A yellow and brown International Harvester Scout 4x4 is towing a float... |
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