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Poster

Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Poster

Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 09 25 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering brand farm machinery showing a French woman in a field with a basket and tilling tool. Printed by H. Brun, Paris, France.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Promotional circular showing the color illustration for a forthcoming farm implement line calendar. Illustration is an artistic rendering of a young woman ...
Poster

Steel Cloverleaf Manure Spreader Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for the International Harvester Steel Cloverleaf manure spreader. Features color and black and white illustrations.
Poster

Deering Small Calendar

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising calendar for the Deering line. The 1926 French calendar's month of January shows a woman who had been working on a farm.
Photograph

Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1923
Description: Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Header and Header Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of headers and header binders. Features a color chromolithograph illustrat...
Photograph

At the Mailbox

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox.
Photograph

Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Advertising Card

Date: 1886
Description: Front of a card advertising the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Illustrations show "primitive" harvesting methods alongside a McCormick binder and a ...
Photograph

Harvesting Cucumbers

Date: 1941
Description: Catherine, Stanley and Sofia Pranica, a Polish family, harvesting cucumbers.
Photograph

Woman Carding Wool

Date: 1915
Description: A woman sitting outdoors next to a spinning wheel while carding wool.
Photograph

Hops Farming

Date: 1880
Description: Group portrait of men and women posing in hop field. Most of the women are wearing aprons, and some of them are holding plants from the harvest. In the for...
Photograph

Group of People in Yard in Front of House

Date: 
Description: Two groups of people are posing in yard. On the left a man and woman are posing sitting, with the man resting his hand on a dog. Standing around them are t...
Photograph

Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

Date: 
Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 514-521

Date: 
Description: Put aside anything so futile

All that fermented time
spent and blackened, much obscured,
is now restored with cheese and wine
Photograph

Group Posed at Barn Raising

Date: 1891
Description: Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Fold-Out Card — Inside

Date: 
Description: Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed...
Print

Fuller Clover Machine

Date: 
Description: Front and back of advertising card. The front features a color illustration of a man and woman standing in a field of red flowers. The back of the card fea...
Photograph

William and Johanna Husking Corn

Date: 1900
Description: William and Johanna Krueger are sitting in chairs husking corn in a cleared field. A large pile of corn stalks is piled in front of them, with a barrel of ...

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