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The Kaiser, Hindenburg, and Ludendorff planning "The Final Drive"

Date: 1916
Description: Kaiser Wilhelm II with Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, commanders on the World War I western front, planning military strategy.
Photograph

The Overbys in their Parlor

Date: 1916
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a...
Photograph

Workers Machine Tractor Engine Blocks

Date: 1916
Description: Factory workers machine tractor engine blocks at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before...
Book or Pamphlet

Low 20th Century Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Low 20th Century manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a farmer with a horse-drawn sp...
Book or Pamphlet

CB&Q Corn Planter Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's CB&Q line of corn planters showing a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn planter.
Book or Pamphlet

Keystone Corn Sheller Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Keystone line of corn shellers, with an illustration of a farmer walking through a gate with ...
Photograph

Gus E. Bloomquist

Date: 1916
Description: Gus E. Bloomquist operating early radio installation, possibly for WHA.
Photograph

Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man operating an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels over rough terrain.
Photograph

Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
Book or Pamphlet

International Motor Trucks with Special Bodies for Bus and Transfer Service

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1916 line of International motor trucks with special bodies for bus and transfer service. Features an image ...
Photograph

Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ...
Photograph

Stacy Apiaries

Date: 1916
Description: Stacy Apiaries with beehives in the foreground and a house and people in the background.
Photograph

Conklin & Sons

Date: 1916
Description: People pose outside of Conklin & Sons store. According to the sign, they sold wood, lime, cement, tile, and brick.
Photograph

Clearing Snow

Date: 1916
Description: Winter scene with men clearing a pathway through mounds of snow, New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Man Near Large Snow Mounds

Date: 1916
Description: Winter scene with man walking down cleared train tracks, probably the Soo Line, next to man-sized drifts of snow, with a dog on the top of a drift. Between...
Photograph

Rural Dirt Road in Oakfield

Date: 1916
Description: Car on a dirt road near Oakfield in Fond du Lac County. The road eventually became U.S. Highway 151. County Highway Commission Costello is driving the car....
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Man Riding Sheep

Date: 1916
Description: An older man is riding a sheep on a dirt road. He has a small barrel, some sausage links, and a loaf of bread. The object in his right hand appears to be a...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Men Riding a Cow

Date: 1916
Description: Three men ride a dairy cow on a dirt road, while a fourth pulls at the cow's tail. Of the three men, one is holding a tennis racket, one is holding a golf ...
Photograph

McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1916
Description: A farmer using a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder.
Photograph

Truck of High Grade Sanitary Sodas

Date: 1916
Description: A man sits in an International truck. The truck carries high grade sanitary sodas, presumably from the company of Wm. Williams and the Baltimore Bottling W...

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