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Old Windmill on Hill

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Description: View of Chatham Windmill, built in 1796 by Colonel Benjamin Godfrey. The windmill is 30 feet tall with an octagonal base and was used for grinding corn an...
Photograph

Group of Men Posing in Field with Three Grain Binders

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men, mostly African American, posing in a field with three McCormick grain binders. Each binder is being operated by a man and is pulled b...
Photograph

Four Men and One Boy in Field with Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: One man is operating a grain binder pulled by two horses, while three other men and a boy are working in the field near him. One man is holding a cradle us...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: Right side view of a man, wearing a hat and a striped shirt, operating a McCormick grain binder in a field with trees in the background. The binder is bein...
Photograph

Man and Children with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of five children sitting in a field of grain. Behind them a man operates a McCormick grain binder pulled by two horses, one wearing a fly-net...
Print

McCormick Advertisement — "Take It Cool"

Date: 1897
Description: An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car...
Photograph

Men and Boys Waving near McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men and boys waving in a field. One man is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. Another man and a boy are in a horse-drawn bug...
Postcard

A Wisconsin Harvest Field at Sunset

Date: 1912
Description: View of shocks of wheat in a field. A few men stand near one of the bunches in the background. From the Scenes along the Country Road series.
Photograph

Group of People Posing with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: A group of people are posing in a field near a barn. They are harvesting grain, and a man is operating a grain binder pulled by three horses. A girl wearin...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Chili

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in Chili. The scene depicts multiple people wo...
Print

M. Carpenter Baking Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the M. Carpenter Baking Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a wholesale baker of bread, cakes, and biscuits. On the left is a color image of a c...
Print

The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...
Print

Kickapoo Farm Seeds, Label

Date: 01 20 1945
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features the shape of the state of Wisconsin outlined in blue and filled in with yell...
Photograph

Men and Dog in Spring Wheat Field

Date: 07 19 1895
Description: Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest.
Photograph

Louie Suttner

Date: 1955
Description: Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall.
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Print

McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder

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Description: Letterpress print of a McCormick Harvester & Twine Binder. The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two horses. A farmhous...
Print

Russian McCormick Advertisement

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of a Russian booklet advertising McCormick agricultural machinery. The cover features an illustration of a woman and child standing in front of...

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