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Photograph

Aerial View of Upper Campus

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view of upper campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 10 08 1997
Description: Group of men harvesting cranberries.
Photograph

Winding Stream

Date: 1933
Description: A landscape view of a winding stream and surrounding croplands. A barn and silo are in the distance.
Photograph

J.A. Coon with Super C and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View across field towards J.A. Coon with a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor and a C-254 cultivator. There is a pond or lake in the background. The origina...
Photograph

Side View of Super C with C-254 Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to work in a field. There is a pond or lake in the background. The ori...
Photograph

Sunrise

Date: 08 12 1961
Description: Early sun seeps through a tree line and buildings into a creek valley. There is a creek in the foreground.
Photograph

Flooded Farm Field

Date: 07 04 1960
Description: Landscape view of a flooded field at sunrise.
Photograph

Flooded Cornfield

Date: 
Description: View of a flooded cornfield with wilted stalks in the foreground.
Photograph

View of the Countryside

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Description: Bundles of a harvested grain stand in a field beyond a body of water.
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Photograph

Mud Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view, looking northeast, across Mud Lake with North Bay in the background, showing cultivated fields and wooded land.
Photograph

Europe Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the northern tip of the Door Peninsula, looking north. Europe Lake is in the center, with Europe Bay to the right. Plum Island and Washingto...
Photograph

Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
Photograph

Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
Map or Atlas

Map of Southwestern Part of Wisconsin, 1839: Showing Physical Features, Plant Life, Quality of Land, and Cultural Features Including Names of Early Settlers

Date: 08 1960
Description: This map shows a detailed account of southwestern Wisconsin. Individual settlers, the type of trees that grow in given areas, the quality of the soil (labe...
Map or Atlas

A New Map of the Cherokee Nation: Map with the Names of the Towns & Rivers They are Situated on. No. Lat. from 34 to 36 ́

Date: 1760
Description: Map showing the towns, mountains, valleys, corn fields, and rivers of a portion of the Cherokee Nation. A few annotations on the map explain the land and r...

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