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Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Buckeye harvesting machines manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company. Cover features an illustration of a man, woman,...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer ope...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buckeye harvesting machines manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company. The cover features a chromolithograph illustrati...
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller and Company Advertising Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Features a chromolithograph of a woman sit...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Deering Ideal harvesting machines. The illustration shows three golden goddesses in Grecian-style gowns, each holding a...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of agricultural machinery. The illustration depicts a field of golden grain stre...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of a catalog for International Harvester's line of Deering harvesting machinery, showing a man pitching hay.
Photograph

La Follette Funeral Procession

Date: 06 22 1925
Description: The funeral procession of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., begins its journey from the Capitol to Forest Hill Cemetery, travelling east around the Squa...
Photograph

Akron Works

Date: 1918
Description: Two men work on truck parts on a workbench at International Harvester's Akron Works (factory).
Photograph

Window Display of Binder Twine

Date: 02 19 1927
Description: Advertising pennants hang behind stacked balls of twine in a window display at the Struche(?) Brothers International Harvester dealership.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 10-20 Pulling Two-Bottom Plow

Date: 11 03 1936
Description: Man driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor pulling a No. 8-C two-bottom moldboard plow. Original caption reads "Hamilton, Ontario- McCormick Deering 10-...
Photograph

Film Still from "Done in Oil"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still - interior with an actress on a cushioned window seat holding an open newspaper. An actor is leaning inside the open window, his head coming th...
Photograph

Swamp Thing

Date: 1985
Description: Publicity photograph of the five band members of Swamp Thing, a Madison, Wisconsin rock group. Clockwise from top are Jonathan Zarov, Bob Appel, Mike Kasho...
Manuscript

Sillman Letter To Lapham

Date: 07 22 1827
Description: Letter from Benjamin Sillman to Increase Lapham requesting information about the canal around the rapids of the Ohio River for inclusion in The Journal ...
Manuscript

Increase Lapham letter

Date: 06 28 1850
Description: Letter from Increase Lapham to his wife, Ann Maria Alcott, in Milwaukee. Lapham was at Aztalan and wrote to Anna regarding the geology of the region. He in...
Photograph

A Girl in her Flowered Hat

Date: 1967
Description: Lori Miller, 5, wearing one of her mother's “flowered” (ribbon bows) hats.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Frauen Zeitung"

Date: 09 27 1848
Description: The front page of the newsletter "Frauen-Zeitung."
Photograph

Card Party

Date: 1967
Description: Middle-aged woman seated at an outdoor table with refreshments. She is wearing a hat made out of newspaper. The occasion is a card party arranged for older...

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