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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Female model posing with a rake next to a reproduction of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper at International Harvester's "A Century of Progress" Worlds F... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Mrs. McCormick i... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered under a tent to view the new line of Osborne wagons at International Harvester's Osborne Division exhibit at the New York State Fair, Septem... |
| Date: | 10 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Service of Thanksgiving for the harvest at Westminster Abbey, London. Princess Margaret, Mr. Fred Peart, Minister of Agriculture (2nd right), and Mr. Hugh ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, and two employees of Steve's Cheese, sample a piece of the World's largest cheese. The gigantic piece of cheese was part of Wisconsin's... |
| Date: | 08 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ... |
| Date: | 06 30 1933 |
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| Description: | Miss Lillian Anderson, "Queen" of the Century of Progress world's fair, pretending to feed a mechanical cow. The cow was used to demonstrate McCormick-Deer... |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland and the Wisconsin Honey Queen standing at a Wisconsin State Beekeepers Association stand, possibly at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Roen and Elizabeth Hart examining a combine (harvester-thresher) at the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. A mannequin is sittin... |
| Date: | 01 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Richard Halbach and Florence Bahr, sitting in a car, are the King and Queen of the 26th annual Little International Livestock and Horse Show, held in the S... |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | The court of honor for the queen of the 26th annual Little International Livestock and Horse Show, held in the Stock Pavilion on the Agricultural campus of... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, posing with a young winner in the lamb and sheep competition at a junior livestock exposition. Joan went on to become Miss W... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire. |
| Date: | 07 27 1960 |
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| Description: | A young girl eating a lollipop is perched in the crook of the arm of "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts. Tracto was part of International Harvester ex... |
| Date: | 07 27 1960 |
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| Description: | A young girl with a lollipop looks up at "Tracto," a robot made of tractor parts for International Harvester's exhibits at state fairs. From the original... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
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