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Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
Photograph

Refueling a Tri-Motor

Date: 1936
Description: Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the...
Book or Pamphlet

Randolph Header Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Randolph header manufactured by the Craver and Steele Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of farme...
Photograph

Hiawatha Locomotive

Date: 
Description: The "Chippewa," one of the Milwaukee Road's high speed Hiawatha locomotives at the Union Station. The station clock tower can be seen in the background.
Photograph

Hansen Home

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of the residence of Casper Hansen, built in 1858. The home has a white picket fence, and a group of people are posing behind the fen...
Photograph

Two Men in front of Lodge

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of a lodge, probably on Rock Island in Door County. Two men pose in front of the building.
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2nd Wisconsin, Company C

Date: 1862
Description: Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J...
Photograph

Straw Lead Furnace

Date: 1880
Description: A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S...
Photograph

Couple in Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A man and woman sitting in a wagon led by a horse. A field and a house are in the background.
Photograph

Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
Photograph

GOP Flying Badgers

Date: 08 1946
Description: Distribution of campaign literature for Joseph R. McCarthy's primary campaign by the Young Republican's Flying Badger Squadron. The two pilots photographed...
Photograph

Dreyfus Inaugural Address

Date: 01 03 1979
Description: After being sworn in, Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus delivers his inaugural address. Second from the right is the former acting governor, Martin Schreiber, w...
Photograph

T-20 TracTracTor

Date: 12 12 1937
Description: A man pulls logs with an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) along a dirt road in a snow-covered field.
Photograph

Man and Boys on Water Wagon

Date: 08 1911
Description: Man with two boys, possibly father and sons, seated on a water wagon pulled by a team of horses along a rural dirt road.
Photograph

Men Standing Atop Corn Harvest

Date: 02 14 1910
Description: Two men standing atop large piles of corn. A barn or farm building can be seen just beyond the large pile. In the background a man is driving a team of two...
Photograph

International Harvester Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1977
Description: A man uses an International Harvester axial-flow combine to work in a field.
Photograph

International Harvester Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1977
Description: A man uses an International Harvester axial-flow combine in a cornfield.
Print

Turner Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1920
Description: Three folds of a pamphlet advertising the Turner-Simplicity tractor featuring two illustrations of a man at work on the tractor along with text describing ...
Print

Peoria Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertisement for the Peoria Tractor Company featuring the silhouettes of a barn and a farmer on a tractor against a setting sun and an i...
Print

Farmer Using Fageol Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising illustration for Fegeol tractors showing a farmer using a tractor in a field.

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