Promotional Card
| The reverse side a promotional card advertising agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The texts reads, "1. How many improved farms are there in the Counties of Price, Taylor and Ashland? Answer. 1888. 2. Total number of acres improved? Answer. 31,269. 3. What is the total value of these farms? Answer. $1,453,312.00. 4. What was the value of agricultural product in 1895? Answer. $575,933.00. 5. Give number and value of cattle and calve in the above counties Answer. Number, 6612. Value, $98,571.00. 6. How many hogs slaughtered in 1895? Answer. 1570. Valued at $15,321.00. 7. How much hay was cut in 1895? Answer. 12,356 tons. Value, $123,870.00. 8. How many bushels of potatoes dug in 1895. Answer. 129,953 bushels. 9. What can good farming land in above counties be bought for? Answer. FIVE DOLLARS PER ACRE. 10. Of whom. Answer. WISCONSIN CENT. R. R. CO. 11. How can full information concerning land be obtained Answer. By writing Frederick Abbot, Land Commiss'r, W. C. R. R., Milwaukee, Wis." |
| Image ID: | 95116 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1895 |
| Creator Name: | Wisconsin Central Railroad |
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| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | H.J. Perkins negatives and photographs, 1895 |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6509 |
| Original Dimensions: | 7.5 x 5.5 inches |
| See the front of this card at Image ID: 95148 See glass plate negative used to create front of this card at Image ID: 1791 Part of the promotional materials created by the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company Land Commissioner to publicize the sale of land in northern Wisconsin, primarily in Price, Taylor, and Ashland counties, owned by the railroad, circa 1895. One side of the card has illustrations of farming conditions, crops, forest resources, homesteads, small towns, and rural scenes in northern Wisconsin. A number of the illustrations are from photographs made by Harvey J. Perkins for "Northern Wisconsin: a hand-book for the homeseeker" and "Hand book of Price County." The reverse side of the card has text touting the abundance of resources available in northern Wisconsin, some of which was taken from "Northern Wisconsin: a hand-book for the homeseeker," edited by William A. Henry. |
| Agriculture |
| Advertising |
| Ephemera |
| Publicity |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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