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Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Photograph

Land Clearing Train

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Description: View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln's Funeral in Chicago

Date: 05 01 1865
Description: Albumen print of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Thirty-six maidens in white surround Lincoln's hearse as it passes through the funeral arch, probabl...
Photograph

Secretary of Interior Visit

Date: 05 28 1948
Description: Wisconsin's Chairman of the State Highway Commission, James R. Law (left), greeting Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug and his wife and son. They ar...
Photograph

Governor Rennebohm Welcomes French Vice Consul

Date: 02 13 1949
Description: French representatives arrived in Madison aboard the French Gratitude Train (Merci Train) and were welcomed at the Northwestern Depot by the governor and h...
Poster

Travel By Train, New York Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Patriotic Poster No. 1

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts...
Photograph

Crawford, McGregor & Caney Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the Crawford, McGregor & Caney Manufacturing Co. with people, horses and wagons, trains, and other buildings visible as well. Text on the photogr...
Photograph

People on Trans-Siberian Train Platform

Date: 1917
Description: Men and women wait on and near box cars at a train platform in Russia. The original caption reads: "cheapest traveling on the Trans-Siberian Ry. [Railway]....
Photograph

Workers on Strike

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Description: Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing.
Photograph

Group of People Gathered Beside Train

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men, with a few women and children, gathered around a passenger train on a stop of the Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign.
Photograph

Children and Adults Gathered near Passenger Car

Date: 1917
Description: Group of youth gathered near a passenger car listening to a man identified as "Governor Howard." The man is most likely Edgar Howard, Lieutenant Governor o...
Poster

"Early Works" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Yugoslavian film, "Rani radovi." Illustrated image of a woman wearing only an open coat and boo...
Photograph

Men Posing wih a Large Flag

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Description: Group portrait of men lined up outdoors in a train yard, in front of an American flag. They are all wearing suits and hats, and three men have boutonnieres...

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