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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Nine girls are posing standing and wearing patriotic costumes. One girl is holding a flag of the United States. Probably a smaller group, from a total of t... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
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| Description: | In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of the Grand Music Band" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog with an illustration of a mower in a field. |
| Date: | 05 10 1928 |
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| Description: | The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Laxey Church, built prior to the Civil War, was named after Laxey in the Isle of Man, from which many of the immigrants had come. There is a cemetery with ... |
| Date: | 07 09 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across fence and field towards the Lutheran church and cemetery of a German or Norwegian settlement near the intersection of Highway 16 and C... |
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| Description: | Graveyard with buildings in the background. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising all-steel threshers, featuring a color illustration of the machine in use. Also included is an illustration showing both faces of the Mc... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Students and teachers gathered in a field for the girls' relay race at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings. |
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| Description: | Elevated city view from an overlooking mountain. A church and cemetery stand among dwellings. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a church with cemetery and farmhouses and rolling hills in the distance. Caption reads: "Ashippun, Wis." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "The long lens compresses this view from the frozen Rock River in the foreground, the Catholic cemetery, and the Haag farm buildings in the distance." |
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