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International "Red Baby" Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1923
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
Photograph

Young Girls Playing on School Swing

Date: 05 1928
Description: Two young girls playing on a tree swing on the grounds of Viall School.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Buckeye harvesting machines manufactured by Aultman, Miller & Company. Cover features an illustration of a man, woman,...
Book or Pamphlet

Artesian Stock Farm

Date: 1884
Description: Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ...
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.
Photograph

Playing Croquet on the Farm

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Description: People are playing croquet in a field in the foreground with other people, horses, cattle and carriages also posing in the field. In the background, peopl...
Photograph

Football Game at Hillside Home School

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Description: A football game being played near Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photograph

Newly-built Farmhouse

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Description: A man standing on a hill with his back to the camera surveys newly-built farm buildings and a large frame house with symmetrical features. Fencing runs thr...
Photograph

Norwegian-style Barn with Cupola

Date: 1876
Description: Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui...
Photograph

Tollef Gjermundsen's Farm

Date: 1874
Description: Tollef Gjermundsen farm. Men on horseback stand in a row in the foreground, and a stone house, windmill and barn are in the background.
Photograph

Woman Sidesaddle on Horse

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Description: Woman posing sitting sidesaddle on a horse in a field. In the background are low hills.
Photograph

Playing Croquet on the Farm

Date: 
Description: People playing croquet in a field in the foreground with horses, cattle and carriages also in the field. In the background, people are standing on the porc...
Photograph

Aerial View of Lake Delview Hotel and Golf Course

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the Lake Delview Hotel, the golf course, and the surrounding countryside.
Photograph

Blackhawk Council of Girl Scouts Roundup

Date: 05 07 1955
Description: Cooking their lunch outdoors is one of the small groups of the more than 1700 Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Intermediates of Districts II and IV of the Blackh...
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

Men in Car on Dirt Road

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Description: Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right.
Painting

Sweet Clover School

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Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
Photograph

Child with Wagon Box

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child wearing a coat and hat is standing in a toy wagon marked "Lightning Coaster" beside a wagon box propped on wooden stakes. A flock of geese is in th...
Postcard

Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Colorized postcard of a scene at Little Norway. A man sits on a wagon chassis. He is wearing an ethnic costume. Various buildings are visible surrounded by...

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