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Why Best Tractors are Tracklayers

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ...
Historical Essay

Scotch Giant (F.W. Shadick) 1813-1854

Circus Performer
Biography of Circus Performer Frederick W. Shadick.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 201-206

Date: 
Description: Even the slow, dry, hungry engines,
digging
what would be the best of times,
cannot help but leave behind them
a restlessness unchanging as bef...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 482-488

Date: 
Description: A man in motion moves upon good reason.

To create disorder
he must stop and settle down.
Print

Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
Photograph

Men with Oxen

Date: 1855
Description: Sod-breaking plow with five yoke of oxen.
Photograph

Giant Prehistoric Ox Horns and Skull

Date: 1927
Description: A man is holding the broken end of a giant prehistoric ox horn next to the rest of the horns and partial skull to show the size. It is noted that they meas...
Photograph

Oxen at the Well

Date: 1929
Description: Three men working with an oxen to draw water from a well with a skin bucket. The well has a stone structure holding the pulley.
Photograph

Olga Petrova and Mahlon Hamilton rural scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a heavily retouched scene still for the silent drama "The Black Butterfly," Sonia Smirnov (played by Olga Petrova) and Alan Hall (Mahlon Hamilton) stand...
Photograph

Farmhands and Cattle in a Farmyard

Date: 
Description: Group portrait over fence of two men, a woman, and a boy posing in a farmyard with cattle and a team of oxen. In the background are farm buildings and a ph...
Photograph

Wagon with Oxen

Date: 1905
Description: Man and woman seated in a farm wagon drawn by oxen.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Buckeye Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Back cover featuring a chromolithograph of a young boy driving a team of oxen pulling a Buckeye Twine Binder. At the bottom is a letter that says, in part:...
Photograph

Copy Photograph; Driving Oxen through a Logging Site

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a group of men standing and posing. They are driving their oxen among cut large trees.
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Forty-ninth annual catalog cover featuring an orange and blue illustration, over a gray background, of two yoked oxen. Directly behind the oxen a man weari...
Photograph

Alabama Road Work

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait of four men and two boys standing with horses, oxen and mules hitched up to drag scrapers, to reconstruct a dirt road. A small building, pow...
Photograph

Oxen Pulling a Cart

Date: 05 1902
Description: Two teams of yoked oxen pulling carts used to transport logs to, and lumber from sawmills. There is a large, wood frame two-story building in the backgroun...
Photograph

Alabama Road Construction

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait, with Ernst Goetsch standing on a dirt road next to a team of oxen hitched up to a drag scraper on the left, and a team of oxen on the right...
Photograph

Lumber Wagon

Date: 05 1902
Description: View across yard towards six oxen pulling a lumber wagon along a road near a sawmill. A man is standing beside the oxen holding a long whip over his should...
Photograph

Hauling Wood to a Lime Kiln

Date: 05 12 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger, Ernst Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, and an unidentified man hauling wood to the Lime Kiln. The wood is piled up on a cart and pulled along t...
Photograph

Ox Cart

Date: 
Description: View across unpaved road towards a man posing sitting in a wagon pulled by a team of two oxen. There is a bridge behind them on the right. Identified as pr...

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