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Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements, including a larger col...
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

Tall-tale Postcard: Kickers without Frogs

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Kickers." A boy wearing waders and holding a rifle stands with his arms ...
Photograph

Horse Pulling Wagon Through Field

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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

Madison Field Trials for Dogs

Date: 03 07 1954
Description: Two trainers posing outdoors with their dogs after taking part in the Madison field trials. A record number of 80 dogs were entered. Winners in the four ca...
Photograph

Hunters in Field

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

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Dressed for the Fox Hunt

Date: 1930
Description: Edward Ilsley of Milwaukee mounted on a horse and dressed for fox-hunting.
Photograph

Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Russ Beach of Madison receives coaching on the firing line at the Winnequah Gun Club near Lodi during a gun safety session for hunters. The instructor is N...
Photograph

Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Jerry Teesdale, a member of the Winnequah Gun Club, keeps in phone contact with men manning the targets during a gun safety session for hunters.
Photograph

Alexander Krueger Riding a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger riding a horse named Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, a bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun shell belt...
Photograph

Alexander Krueger on a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger riding a horse named Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun shell belt, ...
Photograph

Alexander Krueger Standing with a Horse

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Alexander Krueger standing in front of his horse, Jim, while holding a rifle. Alexander is wearing a hat, a bandana around his neck, striped shirt, shotgun...
Photograph

Jennie and Edgar Posing with Dead Rabbit and Two Dead Birds

Date: 04 04 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger suspending a tree limb on their shoulders on which is hanging a dead rabbit and two birds. Each of them is holding a rifle over th...
Photograph

Two Men with Scout II

Date: 1971
Description: Two men are standing at the back of a blue Scout II with blue topper in a field with snow and ice on the ground. They are wearing hunting jackets and hats,...
Photograph

Governor Knowles Pheasant Hunting

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Description: Governor Warren Perley Knowles, 37th Governor of Wisconsin, standing in a snowy cornfield. He is holding a hunting rifle, and a dog on the left is pointing...
Photograph

Hunting on a Shooting Preserve

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Description: Two men holding rifles with two black labs in a field. The man on the right is kneeling in the snow and holding a pheasant which one of the dogs is carryin...
Photograph

Turkey Hunting

Date: 04 1966
Description: A man in hunting gear is kneeling on the ground holding his rifle in his right hand, and holding up a dead turkey in his left.

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