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Visual Materials Subject Overview

Learn about the wide range of visual materials subjects available to view both online and in our Archives
General Information

Paul's Test Article

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Feature Story

How Farm Equipment Collectors Embraced the Archives

Thousands of people worldwide collect and restore machines made by International Harvester, often using the Archives to identify parts.
Feature Story

William E. Allen Receives 2010 'William Dempster Hoard Award for Distinction in Agriculture'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Read about Allen's dedication to the small family farmer and sustainable food systems for communities worldwide.
Feature Story

Robert R. Spitzer Receives 2010 'Charles Van Hise Award for Distinction in Education'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Learn about the president emeritus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This artcile details his leadership roles in numerous companies and firms.
Classroom Material

An 'American Letter' by Norwegian Immigrants

Use a letter written home by a Norwegian immigrant to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in 1840s Wisconsin
Classroom Material

Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820-1914

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 8 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Instruments of Change: Using the McCormick-International Harvester Poster Collection in the Classroom

Use advertising posters to study technological change in American agriculture in the 19th century
Field Trip or Tour

Stonefield Field Trip

Stonefield - a historic site
Stonefield is a museum of agricultural history and farm and village life in 1900.
Print

Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
Photograph

Koehler Family in a Garden

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi...
Photograph

Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Hickory Tree

Date: 
Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Giant Elm at Intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads

Date: 1939
Description: A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P...
Photograph

Driving Hogs Through Town

Date: 
Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall H tractor near International Harvester's experimental farm.
Photograph

International Harvester Truck with Pumpkins

Date: 1951
Description: Color photograph of a farmer filling a red International Harvester L-120 truck with pumpkins.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works Forge Shop

Date: 1902
Description: Men working in the forge shop of the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. In 1902 it became the McCor...

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