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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...
Photograph

Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond.
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ...
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
Photograph

Coolidge Family

Date: 
Description: View down a poplar-lined lane with fields and fences on the right. A man and child are sitting in the lane in a horse-drawn wagon with a team of two horses...
Photograph

Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
Photograph

Landscape View of Field and Farmstead

Date: 
Description: Field in foreground with house, two wood buildings and barn with man standing in front of opened doors in the background. A group of people, children?, are...
Photograph

The Sauk Prairie

Date: 1892
Description: A view of the Sauk Prairie looking south. From the left are the photographer's brother, Frank Bass; Mrs. Edward (Ada Burlingame) Bass and her daughter, Eve...
Photograph

Men Operating McCormick Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View from a distance of three farmers, and perhaps a child, using horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field. Farm buildings are in the middle distance...
Photograph

Harvesting with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men use a McCormick grain binder to harvest a crop on a hill overlooking a valley. Town buildings are on a hill in the far background. Two women and two ch...
Photograph

Men Operating McCormick Binders

Date: 1900
Description: View from a distance of three farmers, and perhaps a child, using horse-drawn McCormick grain binders in a field. Farm buildings are in the middle distance...
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two girls standing in front of the church.
Photograph

Farm Landscape

Date: 
Description: View across field towards men, women, and children posing with buggy, wagon, and plow in front of a frame house surrounded by a number of farm buildings in...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

Date: 
Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 562-573

Date: 
Description: A fire is not a place, but a containment
to keep burning.

A reassembly of inner flames around the patriarch,
A school and script for golden we...
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Photograph

Small Girl Near Railroad Tracks

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified small girl holding a parasol, posed beside railroad tracks.
Photograph

Glenn Standing in a Field

Date: 1961
Description: Glenn Oestreich standing next to a fence in a field with a valley in the background.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Reaper in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view across field with horse-drawn reaper. One man is on the reaper, and a man and young boy are standing in the field among the piles of wheat. ...

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