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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Three Women and a Child

Date: 08 02 1927
Description: Portrait of three women and a child for Mrs. Dowling of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Crowning of Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Ann Steffen of Appleton is crowned the 1952 Alice in Dairyland.
Photograph

Man with Super C Tractor and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View of a man crouching in front of a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to measure a stalk of corn in a field.
Photograph

Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 09 30 1918
Description: Quarter-length publicity photograph of Valeska Suratt in a dark velvet dress and hat. She holds a calla lilly and wears pearl rings. The print carries a...
Photograph

Menominee Indian Performer

Date: 1958
Description: Image is an outdoor portrait of a performer wearing a fringed vest, beaded necklace and headdress, and holding a small axe. Member of the Peavey Falls grou...
Photograph

Menominee Indian Performer

Date: 1958
Description: The image shows a performer standing and holding a pipe. Member of the Peavey Falls group of dancers and musicians from the Menominee Indian Reservation in...
Photograph

Menominee Indian Performers

Date: 1958
Description: Four generations of men and boys pose for a portrait of Menoninee Indians in full dress standing outdoors near a gate and fence. A sign says: "Indian Vill...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Young Men and Women in Formal Attire

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three men posing sitting on the floor, in front of five men posing sitting in chairs, and four women stan...
Photograph

Conrad and Anne Petersen

Date: 11 17 1951
Description: Conrad William and Kathryn Anne (Reebie) Petersen pose for a full length portrait on their wedding day in Winnetka, Illinois. The bride wears a long satin ...
Photograph

Studio Group Portrait of Unidentified European Americans

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman and man posing sitting in front of a man and woman posing standing. The couple on the right...
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle and Family

Date: 12 25 1943
Description: Informal portrait of Dickey Chapelle (back left), her husband Tony Chapelle (back center), her brother Bob Meyer (back right), and her parents Paul Meyer a...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Vel Phillips

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Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a suit and skirt, and holding a pair of gloves in her left hand. She is walking outside on grass with trees in...
Photograph

Boxelder

Date: 1929
Description: Charlotte "Lottie" (Mrs. Walter) Kohler posing standing with her forearms resting on the branch of a large, spreading tree on the grounds of the Kohler est...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Emphemera

Date: 
Description: A portrait of President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
Photograph

Anne Revere in "Toys in the Attic"

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Description: Anne Revere, as Anna Berniers in the play "Toys in the Attic," is holding a flower pot with large fake flowers. She is wearing a hat and is looking off to ...

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