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Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Photograph

Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
Photograph

Man and Family in Yard of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A man lies on the ground with a dog near the front door of his house. His wife and baby are posed on the steps of a side porch. The frame house has a stone...
Photograph

Family of Fifteen by House

Date: 1872
Description: An extended family of fifteen stands in front of a wood frame house. On the left a man holds a black horse, and to the right of the doorway a woman sits at...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date: 1912
Description: Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...
Photograph

Woman Ringing Bell

Date: 1918
Description: A woman standing on a porch is shielding her eyes from the sun as she is ringing a bell (dinner bell?). A child is standing next to her under a clothesline...
Photograph

Century House Ceramics

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: Jane Scalbom and Jane Gilbert Peterson opened a ceramics studio in one of the oldest buildings in Madison, the Century House, 3029 University Avenue. They ...
Painting

Farm Painting

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Description: Farm painting of the Pierson Young residence.
Photograph

Elm Valley Farm

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Description: Interior of the main house at Elm Valley Farm. Two women sit on a couch in the living room. Framed artwork lines the walls and a piano is in the far right ...
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Gull Lake

Date: 12 1928
Description: Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak...
Photograph

Cellar Entrance

Date: 1923
Description: A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the...
Drawing

The Household

Date: 1890
Description: Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a farmhouse, trees and grounds in winter...
Photograph

Playing Checkers and the Accordion

Date: 03 31 1934
Description: Indoor flashlight portrait of Ernst Bruetzman, Edgar Krueger, Jennie Krueger Bruetzman, and Raymond Fehrmann sitting at the table. Ernst is playing the acc...
Photograph

Portrait of Alexander and Florentina Krueger

Date: 1940
Description: Indoor portrait of Alexander and Florentina Krueger. Florentina is sitting in a sofa chair while Alexander is sitting next to her on the arm of the chair. ...
Photograph

Fitts Family Packs to Move Again

Date: 02 18 1964
Description: Mrs. Jay Meredith Fitts sitting in an antique Victorian chair in her old farm house on Old Sauk Road near Gammon Road (the old Carl Meyer place), preparing...
Photograph

Leonore Middleton at Home

Date: 1950
Description: View through room towards Leonore Middleton, in another room, holding a majolica plate. She is sitting next to an open dish dresser which holds other potte...

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