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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Actors on McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 16 1929
Description: Man and a young girl plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor in the Fox Film production "Our Daily Bread".
Photograph

Lars Davidson Reque's Farm with Men and Boys

Date: 
Description: In this tableau, men and boys stand at the edge of the field in elaborate and fanciful poses. The man on the left holds a hoe and cake while the one on the...
Photograph

Flag Drill at Illinois School Festival

Date: 06 1916
Description: A group of girls performing a flag drill during a School Festival as a crowd of adults and children look on. Three boys are standing on the left playing mu...
Photograph

Children Near Tenements

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings...
Photograph

Child Looking at Sculpture of George Washington

Date: 1976
Description: View looking down hill towards a girl holding an American flag near a highway. Jane Leeney, in red, white, and blue pants, shirt, and hat is watching a tru...
Photograph

80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

Date: 
Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

Date: 
Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 522-531

Date: 
Description: It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Foldout Card — Inside

Date: 1898
Description: Inside of foldout card, featuring four color scenes. The top is for steel plows, corn cultivators, disk harrows and spring tooth cultivators with an illust...
Photograph

Masked Campers

Date: 06 23 1979
Description: A man and several children, all wearing handmade masks, playing in a field. Caption reads: "Jay Wigdale, who runs a private day camp, brought his charges t...
Photograph

Film Crew Walking with Crowd of People

Date: 09 1971
Description: A film crew is carrying film equipment and walking in a muddy field, along with men, women and children. Palm trees are growing near a field of tall plants...
Photograph

Horses Pulling Plow

Date: 1953
Description: View from front towards two horses pulling a plow in a field being driven by a boy. On the right an older man is walking beside the team, and in the backgr...

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