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N.C. Wyeth Depiction of McCormick Reaper Demonstration

Date: 1931
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

Date: 
Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

Cultivator on Super-C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: View from front towards two men working in a field with C-254 cultivators and Farmall Super C tractors. One of the men has an umbrella on his tractor.
Photograph

C-254 Cultivator on Super C Tractor

Date: 1952
Description: Front view looking towarsd a man under an umbrella using a Farmall Super C tractor outfitted with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. Another man on a t...
Photograph

Beach and Swimming Pool

Date: 
Description: Elevated view down boardwalk toward people swimming and sunbathing on a beach, while others on the right are using a swimming pool located near the boardwa...
Photograph

Tractor on Montgomery Farm

Date: 1924
Description: An umbrella is shading a man while he is driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?)tractor and disc harrow through a field.
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Photograph

Catholic Church Ground Breaking

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar...
Book or Pamphlet

The McCormick Annual Catalogue

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a man with a walking stick and a woman w...
Photograph

Hay at the Edwin Schnitzler Farm

Date: 07 04 1949
Description: "Hay was being made on the Edwin Schnitzler farm on Doyle Road."
Print

International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Assn. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc...
Book or Pamphlet

Short Turn Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet produced by the Short Turn Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph of a tractor completing work in a field, ...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a calliope and chariot riders in a circus parade, probably the Ringl...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered to watch elephants parade down Main Street. Probably the Ringling Brothers Circus.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

Date: 
Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
Photograph

Loading Bananas on a Train

Date: 1902
Description: Group of men loading a large pile of bananas onto a train in Costa Rica. Three men wearing suits and hats are sitting and standing on top of the railroad c...
Photograph

Bathing Beauty Contest

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: Elevated view of crowd at E.H. Myrland's Farm's Sky Lodge at the bathing beauty contest at the dedication of a new swimming pool at the resort which opened...
Photograph

Men Using TD-14 with Combine

Date: 1941
Description: View down hill towards a group of men with a TD-14 and 51 combine owned by Eaton Sisters. They are harvesting mustard. Below them in the valley are farm bu...
Photograph

Man Using TD-30

Date: 
Description: View up hill towards a man using a TD-30 to move earth. There is an umbrella over the cab, with an IH logo, and "Bark River, Culvert & Equipment Co."

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