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Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Photograph

Landscape View and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ...
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1726

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Death of Confederate General Arm...
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1735

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Field Hospital on the Right of C...
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

Lodi From Cemetery Hill

Date: 1876
Description: A view of the town of Lodi as viewed from the hill north of the cemetery.
Photograph

Panoramic View of the Chicago Great Western Train Traveling

Date: 1937
Description: A panoramic view of the Chicago Great Western train traveling across the countryside carrying assorted International Harvester wagons. The majority of the ...
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 ...
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
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Landscape view down field towards a horse-drawn binder in a field with harvested grain. A man near the road is standing in a horse-drawn wagon on the left....
Photograph

Pfaiffer Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards two men on horse-drawn binders. A group of people are on a horse-drawn wagon on the left. In the far background are farm building...
Photograph

Large Horse-Drawn Wagons Loaded with Supplies

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence and field towards three large, horse-drawn wagons loaded with supplies.
Photograph

Threshing Operation

Date: 08 26 1925
Description: Elevated view of a threshing operation. A tractor on the left is powering the thresher with a long belt. Three men are standing in three horse-drawn wagons...
Drawing

Descending the Bluff

Date: 1948
Description: A pencil drawing of two men descending a bluff with oxen and a wagon to Winona, Minnesota. There is a church in the town below and the Mississippi River is...
Photograph

Baling Operation with Hay Presses

Date: 11 18 1926
Description: View across field towards a truck, wagons, and a tractor belt-driving a hay press. Bales of hay are stacked on the wagons and the truck. Two men are workin...
Photograph

Road Behind the Yankee Line

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the road behind the U.S. line of advance into Saint-Mihiel, jammed with troops and supplies.
Photograph

Tractor Drawn Corn Picker

Date: 10 17 1928
Description: Elevated view towards a man driving a tractor pulling a corn picker in a field. A wagon is next to the corn picker.
Photograph

Motor Cultivator

Date: 
Description: Man using motor cultivator in a field. Two men are standing in a horse-drawn wagon nearby. In the distance across the field are two buildings.

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