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Photograph

Mower in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using what appears to be a mower drawn by two horses to work in a field. Farm buildings and other workers are in the background, as well as child...
Print

Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Althouse & Raymond Wind Mill and the Waupun Patent Premium Pump. I...
Photograph

Motorcycle Police in Front of Badger Ordnance Sign

Date: 1944
Description: Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Book or Pamphlet

Goulds Manufacturing Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man standing and holding onto a Goulds Monarch Sprayer. Text reads: "How to Spray, When to Spray — What Spraye...
Book or Pamphlet

Keller's Advertising Brochure

Date: 1883
Description: Two panels with color illustrations of men using grain binders in a field, each is pulled by a single horse.
Book or Pamphlet

North American Agricultural Implement and General Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1884
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A...
Book or Pamphlet

N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."
Photograph

Manure Spreader

Date: 01 23 1906
Description: Left side view of a manure spreader parked in a yard at McCormick Works. There is a fence in the background.
Postcard

Fields and Mountains at Walnut Grove

Date: 07 14 1909
Description: View looking down on fenced fields, with some harvested bundles of what may be hay. There are two reapers parked near the fence. In the distance are mounta...

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