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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
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International Truck Carrying Female Employees

Date: 1918
Description: International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing...
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Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
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Model Posing with International Spirit of '76 Cadet Tractor

Date: 1976
Description: Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the...
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"Betsy Ross" and International Spirit of '76 Cadet Tractor

Date: 1976
Description: Color advertising photograph for International Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor featuring a model dressed as Betsy Ross sewing stars onto a U.S. flag. The ...
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Early Chicago & Northwestern Locomotive

Date: 07 04 1869
Description: The Camilla, a wood-burning locomotive that belonged to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The locomotive is decorated for the 4th of July, 1869.
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International Harvester Patriotic Exhibit

Date: 1942
Description: Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and...
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Branch Manager with Honor Roll

Date: 1942
Description: S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al...
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Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
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Harvester Battalions Poster

Date: 1944
Description: Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact...
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"Man Those Idle Machines!"

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti...
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Navy "E" Award Ceremony

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi...
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First Veterans Day Proclamation in Wisconsin

Date: 10 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler signs a proclamation making November 11, 1954 the first Veterans Day in Wisconsin. Looking on, left to right, are: Francis Lorbecki ...
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Francis Scott Key

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Description: Vignetted portrait of Francis Scott Key, author of the poem that inspired "The Star Spangled Banner". The poem was written while he was on a ship in Baltim...
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Francis Scott Key, Cigar Box Label

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Description: Lithographic print of portrait of Francis Scott Key. In the background is the sheet music for the Star Spangled Banner, and an American flag.
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Anti-Prohibition Poster

Date: 1918
Description: A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty with her hands in the air and her torch falling towards the ground. Below her are six men pointing guns at her....
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Attention! Mechanics

Date: 10 10 1861
Description: Recruiting poster. At the top is printed "Attention! Mechanics." Underneath is an eagle with a banner in his beak, which reads "Rally, Boys! Rally!" and "Y...
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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Secretaries of War

Date: 1943
Description: United States Army poster with an illustration of four women posing in front of a U.S. flag. The women are wearing Army identification badges on their shir...

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