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First to Fly — Almost Flying

Date: 1901
Description: Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f...
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Binder, Mower and Reaper

Date: 1901
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising leaflet for Aultman, Miller and Company. The advertisement includes color illustrations of the horse-drawn Buckeye r...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower Advertisement

Date: 1901
Description: Portion of an advertising leaflet for Aultmann, Miller and Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in the field with a horse-dr...
Photograph

American Fur Company

Date: 1901
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the offices of the American Fur Company. The roof is damaged or deteriorating.
Photograph

American Fur Company

Date: 1901
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the offices of the American Fur Company. The roof is damaged or deteriorated.
Photograph

Construction of Schuette Bros. Store

Date: 1901
Description: Construction crew raising a brick building. The structure is entirely surrounded by scaffolding. A large stone piece is being hoisted into place while a wo...
Poster

Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch...
Photograph

Bookshelves

Date: 1901
Description: Bookshelves in a law office, with a deer trophy mounted on the wall above. Below the shelves are chairs and a calendar for November 1901.
Print

King Corn

Date: 1901
Description: Advertisement for the grand exhibition of the McCormick corn binder, endorsed by "King Corn." Features an illustration of a Native American man and a photo...
Print

Pullman Buffet Menu

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit...
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Railroad Locomotive No. 257

Date: 1901
Description: Wisconsin Central locomotive no. 257 (left) and Abbotsford and Northeastern Railroad locomotive No.1. The engineer is Lew Choate and the fireman is Ole "Ji...
Book or Pamphlet

Acme Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover, in Spanish, featuring an illustration of trees framing a view of a man working in a field with two horses and a harvesting machine. Text at ...
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover featuring a color illustration of wheat, clover flowers, and a calendar for 1901, around an inset illustration of a farmer working in a field w...
Photograph

Julian Corbisier Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Three women, identified as Louisa, Esther, and Engeline, standing in a field (possibly soybean) on the Julian Corbisier farm. Men in the background are thr...
Photograph

W.A. Holt and Others Eating Meal Under a Tent

Date: 1901
Description: Under a tent, three men are eating a meal prepared by cook Bob Morris, who is standing beside the table. In the foreground is a tree stump which is loaded ...
Photograph

Group of People in Front of House

Date: 1901
Description: Caption reads: "Home of Benjamin Aurey Wood (mother's oldest brother) near Baraboo, Wis. c. 1901. L. to R.: B.A. Wood, his wife the former Sarah Van Pelt, ...
Photograph

Boys on a Donkey

Date: 1901
Description: Group portrait of three boys sitting on a donkey.

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