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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
Photograph

Harvester Farm Display

Date: 1946
Description: A worker tending to a replica field in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The scene includes a Farmall tractor and a barn.
Photograph

Model of Men Working with Farm Equipment

Date: 1932
Description: A model or diorama depicting farmers with a Farmall tractor, truck, harvester-thresher (combine) and a horse in a field. The display was likely part of Int...
Photograph

Chores

Date: 09 03 1965
Description: Dale Gross (1908-1980) in silhouette carrying two pails into a barn.
Poster

McCormick-Deering WD-40 Fold-Out Poster

Date: 1937
Description: McCormick-Deering WD-40 Diesel Tractor poster. Poster folds into smaller convenient mailing leaflet. The text reads: "McCormick-Deering WD-40 Tractor, Amer...
Photograph

Gonstead Residence

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: View through the living room's south wall window of the flagstone terrace, swimming pool, and bathhouse of the S.C. Gonstead residence in Mt. Horeb. Madiso...
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.
Print

The Greatest Weapon

Date: 1918
Description: Wartime advertisement for Kardell tractors featuring an illustration of a farmer using a team of two horses to work in a field, along with the headline: "L...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 498-506

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Description: Cranberry growing has been and is one of the most profitable and picturesque branches of agriculture in Wisconsin. In the 1860's and 1870's, land previousl...
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
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...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 784-792

Date: 
Description: Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated,
their better natures,
surfacing through waves of church-worn care,
prevailed over...
Photograph

Postage Stamp Honors Soil Conservation Efforts

Date: 08 27 1959
Description: A new 4-cent postage stamp honors the American soil conservation effort by showing various phases of soil conservation. Shown (L-R) are: Russell Silverwood...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

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Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Photograph

Far Traveled Ox-Drawn Cart

Date: 1838
Description: Ox-drawn cart in which Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Upson traveled from Connecticut in 1838.
Poster

Fast Film Finishing at Trumble's Dell Photography

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Description: Advertisement for John Trumble's photography studio which, at the time, also included an art gallery and a store for camera supplies and antiques. The post...

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