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Underground Newspaper Cover: Navy Times Are Changin'

Date: 11 1971
Description: Cover of "Navy Times Are Changin,'" an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of three men, at least one in navy uniform, surrounded by pigs pointing f...
Drawing

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1863
Description: View of the grounds of Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893 in the 900 block of East Gorham Street.
Photograph

Ellen Kayser with Baby Chicks

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Pictured at the University of Wisconsin poultry husbandry department is Ellen Kayser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul (Alfie) Kayser, 3 Bayside Drive, holdin...
Photograph

Children at Miller Hatchery

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Pictured are four children admiring young chicks in the window of the Miller Hatchery, 2620 East Washington Street. Left to right: Marita Laufenberg, 9, 25...
Photograph

Turkey Farm

Date: 1940
Description: A farmer standing near a tractor amidst turkeys at Reif Turkey Farm. The original caption reads: "Mr. Glenn Reif uses Farmall H for general farm work, belt...
Photograph

Engine Powering Various Farming Machinery

Date: 1910
Description: Man and woman (husband and wife?) with machinery powered by stationary engine.
Photograph

Woman with Chicks

Date: 06 1925
Description: A woman wearing a dress, apron, and straw hat kneels to fill the water container in a poultry structure used to house chicks at De Kline Farm.
Print

Xmas * Fatherless Children of France * 1917

Date: 1917
Description: Holiday card of three French orphan children, two boys and a girl, herding three geese. The youngest boy holds a switch. A meadow, trees and a house are vi...
Photograph

Klinke's Hatchery's Mini-Turks

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Dressed turkey with label reading, "Klinke's Mini-Turks; Beltsville Whites; Miniature Turkeys, Ready to Cook, Madison Wis. One meal, Family size, Look insi...
Print

Plano Advertisement with Roosters

Date: 1893
Description: Illustrated inset in a Plan Manufacturing Company advertisement depicting a "Plano" rooster chasing a "competitor" rooster. The text reads: "The Light Runn...
Print

Plano Manufacturing Advertisement with Roosters

Date: 1893
Description: An ornate advertisement "showing the wonderful growth of the Plano Manufacturing Company" as symbolized by the hatching and growth of a chick into a mighty...
Print

Wilbur Seed Meal Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Wilbur Seed Meal Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of horse, cattle, poultry, and egg food, hoof packing, and various animal re...
Photograph

Verona Optimist Club Turkey Shoot

Date: 11 03 1957
Description: Ray Schmid (right) hands a frozen turkey to Ray Wolf, a winner of the Verona Optimist Club turkey shoot. Proceeds from the event go to the club's youth pro...
Print

U.S.S. Wisconsin Thanksgiving Menu

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Front cover of "The Badger," official newspaper of the U.S.S. Wisconsin, with a Thanksgiving dinner menu set against an outline in red ink of a larg...
Photograph

Junior Red Cross Party

Date: 11 19 1958
Description: High schoolers choose a mascot for the Thanksgiving eve "Turkey Trot" dance sponsored by the Junior Red Cross. Holding a live turkey on the left is Sandy W...
Print

The Universal Food Chopper

Date: 1899
Description: A reproduction of an ad or counter card for the Universal Food Chopper. Text on the image reads, "The Universal Food Chopper, and a few of the things it ch...
Photograph

Frank Smith, Jr.

Date: 1933
Description: Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr...
Photograph

A Turkey at Krueger's

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a cap and apron holds a (likely taxidermied) Tom turkey while a second man offers the turkey a drink from a bottle. Wooden boxes labelled "Ol...
Photograph

Farm Scene with Horses and Chickens

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Description: A man is displaying two horses among chickens in front of a barn. There is a dog standing in front of the horses.
Photograph

Chickens in a Yard

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Description: Chickens in a yard in front of wooden building on the left, and on the right a sideways double-exposure view of trees. The shadow of the photographer is on...

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