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Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Photograph

Alvin Sebald

Date: 1931
Description: Alvin Sebald, 14, a student at Rhine Center School, poses in front of a tree. He is wearing bib overalls and a necktie. There is a barn and other farm buil...
Photograph

Group Portrait of the Association of State Foresters

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the state foresters at a meeting of the National Association of State Foresters in Wisconsin, October 28-30th.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Three People with Brickworks in the Distance

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a man posing sitting, and two women posing standing on a fence ladder in a field. The Halcyon Brick Works is identified in the ba...
Postcard

A Rural Procession of Carriages

Date: 1910
Description: View of a procession of horse-drawn carriages along a dirt road through a field. The second carriage from the left is a hearse. There is a farm in the back...
Photograph

Group Posing Next to Chevrolet

Date: 1918
Description: Florentina, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger posing next to a 1917 Chevrolet touring car on the Krueger farm. In the background, cows or horses are grazing in a f...
Photograph

Bad Place

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Description: An automobile is stuck in the mud on a rural road. The driver leans out of the window to observe a man putting material for traction under the front, left ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — February & March

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. February features Lewis Miller, the father of the mowing machine, with text and a portrait. March has an illustration of ...
Photograph

Boy with Photo Albums

Date: 
Description: View towards a boy standing outdoors in the grass leaning against a table with photo albums stacked on it. A fence is in the background, and a buggy is par...
Photograph

Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
Photograph

Men Standing Near Tractor and Harvester Thresher

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Two men are standing near a harvester thresher attached to a tractor parked in a field. There are automobiles and buildings in the background.
Photograph

Three Men Posing with Farmall Tractor

Date: 10 20 1927
Description: Three men are posing with a Farmall tractor in a field. In the background are trees, fence, road, and farm buildings. There is a truck behind the group on ...
Photograph

Three Men Posing with Farmall Tractor

Date: 10 20 1927
Description: Three men are posing with a Farmall tractor in a field. In the background are trees, fence, road, and farm buildings. There is a truck behind the group on ...
Photograph

Farmers with Cows

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Two men are standing in a field with two cows. There is a barn behind them on the left, and in the background are buildings, a fence, and a water tower.

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