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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
Poster

International War-Time Advertising Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Advertising poster celebrating the efforts of American farmers in wartime. Features a color illustration of a man in overalls with a Farmall tractor in the...
Poster

World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Photograph

Waukesha CAP

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Description: Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o...
Photograph

Uncle Sam Plowing

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Description: Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World...
Photograph

Motorcycle Police in Front of Badger Ordnance Sign

Date: 1944
Description: Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu...
Photograph

Young Girl with '76 Flag Watching Truck Caravan

Date: 09 25 1975
Description: Seven-year-old LuRae Criscione watches the International Harvester United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Caravan. LuRae is dressed in red, white, and blu...
Photograph

Child Looking at Sculpture of George Washington

Date: 1976
Description: View looking down hill towards a girl holding an American flag near a highway. Jane Leeney, in red, white, and blue pants, shirt, and hat is watching a tru...
Poster

The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with two illustrations of farmers plowing fields with horse-drawn plows. Text reads, in part: "The Nation Needs Flour. Grow More Wheat and Rye, More...
Photograph

Service Roll, Town of Genesee

Date: 1918
Description: View of the service roll for the Town of Genesee. Local service members' names are listed, and a small cannon is set up below. Next to it is a sign that re...

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