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Clyde Beatty

Date: 1933
Description: Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers.
Photograph

Dog at Deadman's Veterinary

Date: 01 22 1934
Description: A nine-month-old St. Bernard dog named Ore, owned by Dubois Miller, 647 E. Dayton Street, looking over a fence at Deadman's Veterinary, 311 East Main Stree...
Photograph

Mr. S. Schafer with Snakes

Date: 12 21 1933
Description: Mr. S. Schafer in laboratory coat, holding one large and one small snake.
Photograph

Cooking Turkey

Date: 11 23 1932
Description: Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
Photograph

Raquel Torres Holding a Dog

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Portrait of Raquel Torres, actress and RKO star, holding a small dog.
Photograph

Man Weighing Chickens

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: Man weighing chickens on a Toledo scale at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, located at 638-40 West Main Street.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Header and Header Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of headers and header binders. Features a color chromolithograph illustrat...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Tillage and Seeding Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage and seeding implements. Features a color chromolithogra...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
Photograph

Circus Performers Astride Horse

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Description: Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop.
Photograph

Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Railway Construction

Date: 12 11 1895
Description: View of the construction area of the Wisconsin Central Railway, looking southeast at Shipyard Point with workers and a team of horses.
Photograph

Man Uses No. 7 Mower in Field

Date: 08 07 1935
Description: A man sits on a horse-drawn No. 7 mower in a field near Hamilton, Ontario.
Photograph

Man Using No. 7 Mower

Date: 07 05 1935
Description: A man using a horse-drawn No. 7 mower in Hamilton, Ontario, while his dog follows alongside.
Photograph

One-Horse Corn Cultivator

Date: 08 06 1935
Description: A man using a one-horse corn cultivator in a field near Hamilton, in Ontario, Canada.
Photograph

Feeding Milk to a Calf

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Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.
Photograph

Ballmer's Old Time Tavern

Date: 10 1977
Description: Bartender Rod Ballmer (center), Paul Bernsdorf (left), and Jeffrey Mondeik at Ballmer's Old Time Tavern. There is a cribbage board on the bar and the wall ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Baker Line

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Baker line of agricultural equipment, including gas tractors, steam engines, and grain threshers. A photograph at ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1898
Description: Back cover with a color illustration of a man using a Buckeye binder in a field drawn by a team of two horses. On the left a woman wearing a dress and apro...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Catalog cover featuring illustrations along with the text: "The Foreign Commisioners Visit the Northwest, and Learn Why Bonanza Farming Pays." At the top i...

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