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Postcard

Milkmaid with Cow

Date: 1911
Description: Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads."
Painting

Horlick's Malted Milk Factory

Date: 1914
Description: Horlick's Malted Milk Factory.
Poster

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...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions, with an address for Budapest, Hungary. The poster was printed by the H...
Poster

Gasoline Engine

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster of an International gasoline engine serving many functions on the farm. Includes a large bird's-eye view of a farm, surrounded by ...
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

International Ensilage Cutters Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of farmers using an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. At the bo...
Print

Bluebell Cream Harvesters Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Bluebell cream harvesters (cream separators). Includes an illustration of a young girl carrying a bucket and herding tw...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Hopper Cooled Gasoline Engines Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of an International Harvester advertising catalog for hopper cooled gasoline engines. Includes an illustration of the engine behind the title, and at...
Poster

International Tractor and Engine Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International tractors and engines featuring an illustration of a farmer using a cultivator in a field beside a herd of cows. The ma...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Poster

IHC Gasoline Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester stationary, portable and traction engines. Features color illustrations of engines and tractors in a number ...
Photograph

Cow Near Rustic Barn

Date: 1914
Description: A cow standing outside the door of a rustic barn with a thatched roof.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: We Never Stop

Date: 1915
Description: A man is driving an old-fashioned car with three women passengers on a road littered with cows. The driver has hit a cow with the car, causing it to fly in...
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

Men with Livestock

Date: 1914
Description: Group of men in a pen with livestock, including pigs, sheep, a cow, a donkey and horses. The livestock was owned by the Piney Woods Country Life School.
Photograph

Washing Clothes in the Yard

Date: 1915
Description: View across wooded yard towards a woman leaning over a washtub using a washboard and to wash sheets. Sheets are drying on a clothesline and a washtub of bo...
Photograph

Potatoes at Chicago Dump

Date: 1917
Description: Thousands of potatoes dumped from a freight train along a rail embankment. There is a cow in the background foraging. Original caption reads, "Many thousan...
Postcard

Calf

Date: 1910
Description: A young spotted calf is tethered with a rope to an open barn door at the Middleton family farm. There is a ladder in the background.
Photograph

Taliesin I Hayloft

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I hayloft as seen from the courtyard. The statue, "Flower in a Crannied Wall," stands on a stone pillar. A cow and a calf can be seen through the ...

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