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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

Soviet Government Representatives at Farm

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: Six Russian representatives of the Soviet government observing a new McCormick-Deering Company Model 50-T hay baler at the Bowman Dairy Farm on Fish Hatche...
Photograph

"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
Photograph

"Tractorettes" with Instructor

Date: 1942
Description: A group of "Tractorette" participants are looking on as their teacher, L.J. DeMars, assistant manager of the Blanchard Motor Company in Springfield, is ins...
Photograph

Francis Shirbroun Delivers Mail in Farmall A Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Francis Shirbroun delivers mail to a mailbox in a Farmall A tractor that has been fitted with a homemade cab for delivering mail. The cab has a "FARMALL" d...
Photograph

80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: A chorus of men singing on stage with a crowd watching. A group of officials seated on the right. Rolling farmland in the background.
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...
Document

Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association Membership Certificate

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association membership certificate, signed by N.E. France Association President. No. 148. Illustrations of clover flowers and b...
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...
Photograph

Krueger Family in a Wheat Field

Date: 1908
Description: Florentina, Jennie, Edgar, and Alexander Krueger standing in the middle of a wheat field on their farm.
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

Date: 
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

Man in Field Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field. Two men are standing near a sheaf of wheat on the left. Another man is st...
Photograph

Men with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Three men are standing near a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field.
Photograph

Men and Children with Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men and two children are posing with a horse-drawn binder in a field. The horses are wearing fly-nets.
Photograph

Group of Men Posing in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men posing in field around a man sitting on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. In the background are farm buildings, and in the far distance a valley...
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...

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