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Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Photograph

Cooking Classes at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Postcard

Singer Sewing Machine in Java

Date: 
Description: Illustration of a Javanese woman sewing at a Singer Sewing machine while a Javanese man looks on.
Postcard

Singer Advertising Card — Filipino Pair

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a boy and a girl from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in "native" Filipino costume, posing next to a Singer sewing ma...
Photograph

Sewing Class

Date: 1898
Description: From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J...
Poster

It's Better with Butter!

Date: 1941
Description: Color poster created by the National Dairy Council, Chicago, of butter and buttered food items such as pancakes, baked potatoes, and a steak, displayed on ...
Print

The Slide

Date: 1880
Description: Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow.
Poster

International Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Cultivator Catalog

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising catalog for International Harvester cultivators. Features an illustration of a woman feeding birds.
Print

Woman Peeling Potatoes in front of TV

Date: 1956
Description: "All To Myself" brochure for the NBC Matinee Theater with a woman sitting front of the television peeling potatoes with her shoes off. There is an outline ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Refrigerator Brochure

Date: 1949
Description: Cover of a brochure for International Harvester refrigerators with an image of a man and woman admiring a refrigerator stocked with food and drink.
Print

International Harvester Refrigerator Brochure

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising brochure with an image of a woman opening a bottle of soda with the bottle opener on a well-stocked International Harvester Refrigerator while ...
Magazine or Periodical

Evansville Works Home Economics Kitchen in "International Harvester World"

Date: 02 1948
Description: Cover of "International Harvester World" magazine, with an image of three women in the home economics model kitchen at International Harvester's Evansville...
Poster

Keep Well to Win!

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a man eating a balanced meal and getting plenty of sleep in order to help win the war. The poster was printed for the Labor-Management Produ...
Print

State Fair Handbill

Date: 1929
Description: Printed color handbill that advertised the special events of the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a woman bearing a platter of produce.
Photograph

The Soldier's Home, the Vision

Date: 1862
Description: "The Soldier's Home, the Vision," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored.
Book or Pamphlet

Safe Home Canning Booklet

Date: 12 15 1944
Description: Cover of a booklet on home canning produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The booklet promotes "safe home canning" of fru...
Postcard

Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata...

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