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Poster

McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Photograph

Hunter Shows Prize to Man on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b...
Photograph

Edgar Krueger with Mink

Date: 1913
Description: Young Edgar Kruegar holding a mink he trapped in one hand and a gun in the other.
Drawing

Shooting Wild Pigeons

Date: 09 21 1867
Description: Illustration of four men shooting at a thick flock of wild pigeons. Hunting dogs are gathered around them in the field, which has a number of dead birds.
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
Photograph

Horse Pulling Wagon Through Field

Date: 
Description: A man with a shotgun and whip sits in a buggy pulled by a single horse in a field, possibly looking for prairie chickens.
Photograph

Men Talking at Bridge

Date: 
Description: Two men standing on a wooden bridge holding rifles, with a horse-drawn carriage in the background.
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Photograph

Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
Photograph

Fidel and Raúl Castro with Bazooka

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel and Raúl Castro pose with a bazooka for a photograph in a field during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel is standing above on the left and Raul is kneeling...
Photograph

Military Men Crossing Wooden Bridge

Date: 07 1942
Description: A group of men from the 14th Infantry running while crossing a newly constructed wooden bridge over mud in a field in Panama. The men are in uniform and ar...
Photograph

Helicopter Aid after Viet Cong Attack

Date: 06 1962
Description: Survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam sit or stand near an American military helicopter that has arrived to offer aid. A sol...
Photograph

Machine Gun in Helicopter Over Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Silhouette of a machine gun in an Army helicopter and a scenic view of the mountain region in Vietnam below. Green mountains rise next to developed country...
Photograph

Vietnamese Assault on Village

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldiers exiting from U.S. Army helicopter and running across a field with guns drawn to assault a village suspected of harboring Viet Cong in t...
Photograph

Capture of Suspected Viet Cong

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
Photograph

Vietnamese Soldier in Helicopter

Date: 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldier in a helicopter, holding a rifle and looking out the open door at the countryside of Vietnam.
Photograph

Hunters in Field

Date: 11 1981
Description: "These hunters are in a field near Soo Road and Hwy 175."
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
Photograph

Civil War Reenactment

Date: 09 1993
Description: "Civil War buffs perform at Greenbush."
Photograph

Civil War Reenactment

Date: 09 1993
Description: "Civil War reenactors stand at attention at Greenbush."

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