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Book or Pamphlet

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

Trail Through Pines

Date: 1905
Description: Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County.
Photograph

Homer Bigart with Elderly Couple

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times".
Photograph

Security State Bank Lobby

Date: 03 26 1927
Description: Lobby of the Security State Bank, with depositors waiting in line at teller's windows.
Photograph

Robot and Baby

Date: 
Description: An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England.
Photograph

Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
Photograph

Sweeney Brothers

Date: 10 04 1933
Description: Brothers William Sweeney (right) and Homer Sweeney (left), standing on Coon Rock Bluff.
Photograph

Ruth L. Brissee with Rifle and Dog

Date: 09 22 1933
Description: Ruth L. Brissee holding a rifle, standing with her dog in a garden at 2437 Fox Avenue. At age 15 she is the youngest huntress in Dane County.
Photograph

John Walker

Date: 06 15 1933
Description: John Walker, father of 16 children, standing outside a greenhouse with a pipe in his mouth.
Photograph

Jessie Manchester in Garden

Date: 05 25 1933
Description: Jessie (Mrs. Harry) Manchester in her garden, with lilacs, tulips and a bird bath, in Maple Bluff.
Photograph

Sherman Park School, Student Graduates

Date: 05 27 1932
Description: Sherman Park School, 1601 North Sherman Avenue, eighth grade graduates, five boys, one girl, and teacher. Floral arrangements and programs are featured.
Photograph

Mrs. Frances Hawkins Painting in the Studio

Date: 04 25 1932
Description: Artist Frances Hawkins sitting in a wicker chair and painting at the easel in her studio.
Photograph

Antique Christmas Cards

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Four antique Christmas cards. At the top left is a copper engraved robin card, 1840. Top right is a harp and rose greeting card hand-painted in 1800. Lower...
Photograph

Girl with Easter Lily

Date: 03 30 1931
Description: Ruth Jordan holding an Easter lily plant in Smith-Knox Floral Co. greenhouse, 2023 Sherman Avenue.
Photograph

ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 09 11 1930
Description: Ed Lynch booth at ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association). Showing men's shoes and clothing.
Photograph

Charles H. Seals

Date: 04 03 1929
Description: Portrait of Charles H. Seals, janitor at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. He is standing next to a rubber tree plant and is cleaning the table.
Book or Pamphlet

Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Cloverleaf manure spreader, featuring an illustration of a man operating a horse-drawn ...
Photograph

Farmall 140 Tractor with Cultivator

Date: 1954
Description: View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with an attached cultivator in a field.
Photograph

Century of Progress Queen Signs Photographs

Date: 07 18 1933
Description: Miss Lillian Anderson, Queen of the "A Century of Progress" exhibition, signing photographs at the International Harvester exhibit.
Photograph

Osborne Works Employee

Date: 10 06 1925
Description: A female factory worker(?) from Osborne Works posing for a portrait in a wooded area.

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