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Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...
Map or Atlas

Edgerton, Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: Like many southeastern Wisconsin villages, Edgerton was settled by Yankee immigrants in the 1830s. Though this view gives no indication of it, by 1871 toba...
Photograph

Family of Nine in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: Half of a stereograph showing a family of nine sitting in front of a stone two-story house. Behind it on the right are various horse-drawn farm implements,...
Print

Rebuilt McCormick Buildings

Date: 1871
Description: Collage depicting multiple McCormick buildings reconstructed or built after the Chicago Fire. The caption at bottom reads, "Rebuilt Chicago. — Buildings Er...
Map or Atlas

Experimental Farm and College Grounds Belonging to the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1871
Description: This map shows buildings, roads, the railroad, an orchard, and swamp land. Relief shown by hachures. The map includes an index of buildings in the upper ri...

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