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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 ...
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

August L. Gebhardt

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of August L. Gebhardt, Milwaukee farmer.
Photograph

J.W. Martin

Date: 07 30 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of J.W. Martin, Gotham farmer and importer.
Photograph

Two Men Posing with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are posing in a field with a grain binder and two horses. One man is sitting on the binder seat, and the other man is leaning on the binder behind ...
Photograph

Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
Photograph

Grain Stacks

Date: 09 09 1895
Description: View across field of two men leaning against an enormous stack of grain on the farm of August Schmidt. There are many more stacks of grain leading into the...
Photograph

Threshing Scene

Date: 
Description: A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap...
Photograph

Men Wearing Suits Posing with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Two men wearing suits are posing with a man using a horse-drawn binder.
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people, children, men and a dog, are standing behind a man using a horse-drawn binder in a field.
Photograph

Three Men with Horse-Drawn Binder in Field

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards three men with a horse-drawn binder. The man on the left is wearing a suit and hat and is carrying a case. The man on t...
Photograph

Group of Men Posing near Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across harvested field towards men posing near a man on a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Farm buildings are behind them, and in the far background are ...
Photograph

Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...
Photograph

Hettie and James Albee

Date: 1885
Description: Waist-up, vignetted portrait of a couple. These are James Albee and his wife Hettie (nee Letier).
Photograph

James and Martha Hunter

Date: 1886
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a couple. These are James Hunter and his wife Martha (nee Mero).
Newspaper Article/Clipping

S.J. Uhrenholdt

Date: 02 17 1916
Description: Portrait of Soren J. Uhrenholdt. Caption reads: "S.J. Urhenholdt, Hayward, Has Done Much to Advance Wisconsin's Work in Potato Growing." From an article ti...
Photograph

Frank W. Allis

Date: 1905
Description: Waist-up portrait of Frank Watson Allis, son of Edward P. Allis. Frank was a gentleman farmer in the Blooming Grove community, now Monona.
Photograph

William Lafayette Ames

Date: 1911
Description: Waist-up portrait of William Lafayette Ames, a farmer from Oregon. William was the great-grandson of Revolutionary War veteran Nathaniel Ames. He served in...

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