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John Muir

Date: 1875
Description: Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914).
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

John Muir

Date: 1899
Description: A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir.
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,...
Poster

Deering Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
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...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

Annuity Payment at La Pointe

Date: 1870
Description: Indians receiving payment. Seated on the right is John W. Bell. Others are, left to right, Asaph Whittlesey, Agent Henry C. Gilbert, and William S. Warren ...
Photograph

Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ...
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

Men with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re...
Photograph

Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
Photograph

Man with a Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A bearded man in a coat and a straw hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a hilly field. Trees cover part of the hill in the background.
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...
Photograph

Men on Horse-Drawn Mowers

Date: 1900
Description: A line of men and horse-drawn mowers in a field. One man wearing a bow tie is sitting astride a horse and waving his hat at the camera.
Photograph

C.C. Washburn Homestead

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi...
Photograph

Logging Clean-Up Crew

Date: 
Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Photograph

Farmworkers Taking a Break

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

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