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Peter Lagacy Family

Date: 
Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Photograph

Krueger Family in Field

Date: 08 24 1907
Description: August, Tina, Sarah, Jennie, Edgar and Alex Krueger posing outdoors in a field. Alex took this photograph remotely with a string tied to the shutter of the...
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Print

Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Photograph

Kruegers Husking Corn

Date: 
Description: August, Mary, Tina, Saraphina, Jennie and Edgar Krueger husking corn.
Photograph

Men in Sorghum Field

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: Two men with scythes stand in front of a sorghum patch planted on May 20th, 1895. The view was taken near Osceola.
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
Poster

Champion Harvesting Machines Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand agricultural machines, manufactured by Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company. The main illustration depicts a salesma...
Photograph

Rennebohm Coffee Break

Date: 1979
Description: Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i...
Photograph

Serving Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Barbara the waitress serves breakfast to Steve Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant while Albert Friedman drinks coffee and waits f...
Photograph

Coffee at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress pours coffee at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 6 restaurant in the First Wisconsin Bank on the Capitol Square. Steven O. Kimbrough is seated on th...
Photograph

Four Men in a Booth

Date: 1979
Description: Four men in informal attire on their coffee break in an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. They are sitting in a booth identified as a no smokin...
Photograph

Rennebohms Lunch Counter

Date: 1979
Description: Steven O. Kimbrough enjoys a second cup of coffee at the lunch counter at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 4 restaurant in the Hilldale Shopping Center, 702 N....
Photograph

Josiah Hoopes, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Josiah Hoopes (b. 1832, death date unknown), American botanist. In 1853, he established a tree nursery in West Chester, which i...
Photograph

Dr. Edward A. Bass Family on Pile of Hay

Date: 1895
Description: Dr. Edward A. Bass, photographer, seated in pile of hay holding his son, Cary. Seated in front of him are his wife, Ada, and daughter, Everetta. Horse iden...
Photograph

Samuel Hightower with Cradle

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: Samuel Hightower(sp?) stands in a grassy yard and holds up a cradle for harvesting grain.

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