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Workers Relaxing Outside Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Photograph

Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from out of town, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the backgr...
Photograph

Centennial Fair Preparations

Date: 08 1948
Description: Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair.
Photograph

Harvester Employees(?) Grouped for Parade

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women, many holding American flags, on top of and around a wagon or an International truck on a city street. The truck has a banner which ...
Photograph

Registration and Information Booth at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 06 30 1933
Description: People standing around the International Harvester information and registration booth at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. The sign attached to the...
Photograph

International Truck at Indianapolis 500 Race

Date: 05 30 1938
Description: A photographer uses the bed of an International truck parked on the outskirts of a crowd to take photographs at the Indianapolis 500 race. Other photograph...
Photograph

Canadian National Exhibition Ride

Date: 1938
Description: A man stands by to operate an amusement ride called the "Waltzer" at the Canadian National Exhibition. The ride was owned by Ideal Exposition Shows of Pete...
Photograph

Scale Model of Cyrus McCormick's First Reaper

Date: 11 1951
Description: State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock with a model of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 690-696

Date: 
Description: For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well
let us call all professionals to wear the laurel
and deck the Halls of Fame
Photograph

Wisconsin Pavilion Under Construction

Date: 1964
Description: View of the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair under construction. The steel frame of the building is visible behind a sign for Thatcher Construct...
Photograph

Madison Saddlery Company on an Outing

Date: 1907
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Madison Branch of the Madison Saddlery Company located at 313-317 E. Wilson Street. The event may be a recreational gathering...
Photograph

Brooks McCormick with Unidentified Man

Date: 1969
Description: Brooks McCormick standing outdoors next to an unidentified man who is holding an International Pay Hauler toy truck in his hands. Behind them a man stands ...
Photograph

Demonstration of a One Ton Truck, Two Ton Load

Date: 03 06 1929
Description: View towards a man driving a Six Speed special truck up a wooden ramp, on what may be fairgrounds. The sign along the side of the truck reads: "Internation...
Photograph

IH Community Luncheon

Date: 12 17 1962
Description: Men at the head table at the luncheon at the Edgewater Inn Hotel. Caption on back reads: "Mayor Jack Maltester (mayor of San Leandro) presents key to the C...

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