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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a courtroom scene framed with a draped American flag and th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
| Date: | 12 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Poster entitled "Reformers Of 1873" with depictions of Governor William R. Taylor, Lt. Governor Charles D. Parker, Secretary Peter Doyle, Treasurer Ferdina... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of an advertising folder showing factory buildings of the D.M. Osborne Company. The top center illustration is the Office and Factory; bottom... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farmer posing on a McCormick grain binder drawn by two horses in a wheat field. Two men in suits are posing next to a bundle of w... |
| Date: | 08 22 1899 |
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| Description: | Man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. Original caption reads: "Kinsella Grain Co., Colon, Nebraska. Aug 22/99. Gentlemen — In repl... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large group of men, mostly African American, posing in a field with three McCormick grain binders. Each binder is being operated by a man and is pulled b... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | One man is operating a grain binder pulled by two horses, while three other men and a boy are working in the field near him. One man is holding a cradle us... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man, wearing a hat and a striped shirt, operating a McCormick grain binder in a field with trees in the background. The binder is bein... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children sitting in a field of grain. Behind them a man operates a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses, one wearing a fly-net... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car... |
| Date: | 07 19 1895 |
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| Description: | Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor... |
| How a Disaster Made Wisconsin the Dairy State |
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| Discover how Wisconsin became the nation's leader in wheat long before it was renowned for dairy, and the disaster that made it all possible. |
| How Wisconsin Became the Dairy State |
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| Discover how Wisconsin became the Dairy State. |
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