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Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Boys

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio group portrait of young Ho-Chunk men. Standing (l to r) are George Otter (Hay Cho Kah), Johnnie Thunder (Hoonk Nee Kah), and George Bear...
Photograph

Two Young Women Smoking in Campground

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Two young female audience members, one wearing a paisley print dress, the other wearing an American flag print dress, sit in the camping area smoking marij...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 28 1952
Description: Two men from C.C. Collins and Sons, Inc. look over a color chart for their racers with two boys they are sponsoring in the soap box derby race. Left to rig...
Postcard

Forest Middleton and Friend

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton, left, sitting cross-legged on a chair holding a pipe and glancing at a friend, possibly Eddie Quick. There is a ...
Photograph

Willms Cigar Factory, Milwaukee

Date: 1896
Description: Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c...
Photograph

Group of Men and Boys with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man smoking a pipe sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder. Around him are young boys with horses. Another man is standing on the right. In the background ...
Postcard

Man, Woman and Girl

Date: 1930
Description: Group of three people standing outside on a sidewalk in front of a stone dwelling with a porch and steps behind them. A man holds a bottle, ready to pour i...
Photograph

People Posing in Yard of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and two men and two young girls standing, along with a dog in a yard in front of a frame house with a porch. Farm buildings a...
Photograph

People Posing in Front of Log Farmhouse

Date: 
Description: View across yard towards a group of eight people posing in front of a log house. On the left two young women are standing near an older woman, who is sitti...
Photograph

General Merchandise Store

Date: 1909
Description: Six men, a young boy and a woman stand outside on the porch and road in front of the General Store. There is a sign for "Star Brand Shoes" posted on the ro...
Photograph

Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
Photograph

Family Posing in Yard

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Description: Stereograph of unidentified family posing around two tables in a yard. Includes mother, father, and seven children. In the background is a large, three-sto...
Photograph

In the Backyard

Date: 1900
Description: Edward Petersen, left rear, and his son William F. Petersen, right rear, pose behind three unidentified people sitting on a rustic bench in a yard. Edward ...
Photograph

"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: Sue Fehland from Wausau and Mary Heiser from Freeport, Illinois, are watching Ken Hauser from Ridgewood N.J., who is taking a turn at jacks while kneeling ...

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