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Fordson Tractor with Plow Equipped for "Driverless Operation"

Date: 05 14 1927
Description: Farmer and mechanic F.L. Zybach, 32, standing beside his invention -- a Fordson tractor with a front-mounted plow equipped for "driverless operation." Orig...
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Experimental Four-Wheel Rubber Tire Tractor

Date: 05 25 1954
Description: Man standing next to an experimental four wheel rubber tire tractor inside an International Harvester engineering(?) facility.
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Experimental MRS Special Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Engineering photograph of a man sitting on an experimental International MRS Special tractor.
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Obed Hussey

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa...
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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Farmer Harvesting Corn with McCormick Corn Picker

Date: 1954
Description: Color photograph of a man harvesting corn with a McCormick corn picker on International Harvester's experimental farm.
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McCormick Works Paint(?) Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp...
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Filming of "Romance of the Reaper" at Walnut Grove

Date: 1930
Description: Film crew setting up a scene in which actors playing the parts of Cyrus McCormick and his slave Jo Anderson operate a replica of McCormick's reaper of 183...
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs...
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Farmall F-22 Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man plowing a field with an experimental Farmall F-22 tractor.
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Ventilator Testing Cabinet

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man operating a ventilator testing cabinet at W.R. Carnes Company.
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Research Products Filter Fry Rack

Date: 01 11 1954
Description: A man displaying a Research Products Corporation rack for Filter Fry frying pan covers, "Takes the spatter out of kitchen frying."
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Research Products Filter

Date: 04 12 1954
Description: Workman riveting two filter frames together horizontally. Taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue.
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Research Products Filter

Date: 04 12 1954
Description: Workman riveting filter frames together in a L shape, taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue.
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Ventilator Testing Cylinder

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man operating a ventilator testing cylinder at W.R. Carnes Company.
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Carnes Company Testing Room

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man standing on a platform ladder adjusting a ceiling ventilator in the testing room at W.R. Carnes Company, wide angle view.
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Rock with Petroglyphs

Date: 1953
Description: Stone displaying ancient writing. The rock was on the grounds of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Grounds. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was...
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B.B. Stoller Tending Mushroom Garden

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: B.B. Stoller tending the University of Wisconsin mushroom garden in the "hole in the ground" which is a bricked and vaulted recess located in the hillside ...
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First Four-Wheel Drive

Date: 1909
Description: Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t...

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