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Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Harvester Catalog

Date: 1910
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Bluebell line of International Harvester cream separators.
Book or Pamphlet

Primrose Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Primrose line of IHC cream separators. Cover features chromolithograph of cows at a drinking trough. In the uppe...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily brand of cream separators showing a woman drinking a cup of water from a hand-pump, and ...
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dairymaid cream separators sold by International Harvester. Features a silhouette of a woman standing in the doorway of...
Photograph

Natural Meadow

Date: 1914
Description: View of clumps of grasses in a meadow with a handful of trees in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Cream Separators and Milkers Brochure

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering cream separators and milking machines (milkers). Includes the text: "For One Cow or a Hundred" a...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Fertilizer and Lime Distributor Brochure

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering fertiizer and lime distributors, featuring a herd of cows grazing. Includes the slogan: "acres of pr...
Postcard

Pecatonica River, Most Crooked River in the World

Date: 
Description: Colorized, elevated view of the Pecatonica River with several of its many curves. Cows are grazing in the pasture in the foreground. The landscape is dotte...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...
Postcard

Fall Foliage, Door County

Date: 1952
Description: View across a field towards trees with fall color. The text on the reverse reads: "Beauty unsurpassed greets the eye of the visitor to Door County, Wiscons...
Postcard

Bird's-Eye View of So. Germantown

Date: 1907
Description: Slightly elevated view of Germantown from across a grassy field. Caption reads: "Birdseye [sic] View of So. Germantown, Wis."
Postcard

Greetings from Jacksonport

Date: 
Description: View of Jacksonport and Lake Michigan from across a pasture. A man is driving a horse-drawn vehicle in the foreground. Caption reads: "Greetings from Jacks...
Postcard

Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley

Date: 
Description: View from a hay field on a hill looking towards pastures and fields in a valley. Caption reads: "Harvest Scene in Bostwick Valley, La Crosse, Wis."
Postcard

County Road Near Holy Rosary Academy

Date: 10 04 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Corliss, Wis., County Road Near Holy Rosary Academy." A horse drawn buggy drives along an unpaved road. On the right is the Holy Rosa...
Postcard

A Happy Christmas

Date: 12 24 1908
Description: Christmas postcard of a mountain peak, the Eiger, in Switzerland. In the foreground, a man is dressed in a traditional costume, blowing a horn. Text on the...
Postcard

View of Silver Lake

Date: 1906
Description: Text on front reads: "View of Silver Lake." A colorized view of a man in a suit rowing a boat on a bay of a lake. Trees and a pasture are on the opposite s...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." On the reverse it reads: "Lush Farm Land." Elevated view of a farmer on a tractor in a large corn ...
Postcard

Greetings from Spring Green

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Spring Green, Wis." A country road curves to the left around a farm. On the right are a tree, fields and a fence with ...

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