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Photograph

McKay Nursery Field

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: McKay Nursery field with men planting, and horse teams pulling cultivators.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage implements featuring an illustration of a farm seen from a high...
Photograph

Farmer with Walking Planter

Date: 1925
Description: Farmer in a field walking behind a P&O planter drawn by a mule. There is an automobile on a road near a house behind a fence in the background.
Photograph

Men in Automobile near Hay Loader

Date: 1919
Description: View across field. Two men in the foreground on the left are sitting in an automobile. Behind them men are working with a hay loader and a wagon in the fie...
Painting

Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Tim Enderle with Elk

Date: 2004
Description: About 40 elk are currently being raised on the Enderle farm by Tim Enderle.
Photograph

A Mule Pulling A Toboggan

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene down a hill of a young boy or girl riding a mule which is pulling a toboggan up the snow-covered hill. Children in winter clothing run up the ...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Joy Ride

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 05 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a man in a uniform driving a truck, with a farm in the background. Includes t...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View

Date: 1920
Description: View from low hill of a stream flowing through fields. There are cows in the pasture on the right. In the distance is a bridge, road, and buildings.
Photograph

Lake Kegonsa Log Cabins — Highway 51

Date: 1930
Description: View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar...
Photograph

Ruins of Cyclone

Date: 08 07 1924
Description: The aftermath of a killer tornado, including an arrow and caption that reads: "William Berg Killed Here." In the background near the farmhouse are a group ...
Photograph

Two Women in a Maxwell Car

Date: 1910
Description: Mrs. Theodore Mueller and an unidentified woman posing in a Maxwell car.
Photograph

Group Posing Next to Chevrolet

Date: 1918
Description: Florentina, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger posing next to a 1917 Chevrolet touring car on the Krueger farm. In the background, cows or horses are grazing in a f...
Photograph

Bad Place

Date: 
Description: An automobile is stuck in the mud on a rural road. The driver leans out of the window to observe a man putting material for traction under the front, left ...
Photograph

Bhend Family with First Car

Date: 1922
Description: The Bhend family posing with their first car, a Ford Model T, on the Krueger farm. Posing and looking out of the car windows are John Bhend, sitting in the...
Photograph

Robert Posing Next to Car

Date: 1955
Description: Robert Krueger stands near a driveway next to a Chevy automobile with his hand on the driver's side door knob. A cat is walking on the ground in front of h...
Drawing

Automobile Race

Date: 1948
Description: Pencil drawing depicting the first automobile race held in Wisconsin. The two vehicles each carry two men on a rural road. A handful of spectators, includ...
Photograph

Large Horse-Drawn Wagons Loaded with Sacks of Grain

Date: 1915
Description: View down roads towards a man driving an automobile. Behind him in a field are two large horse-drawn wagons piled high with sacks of grain. In the backgrou...

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