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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor...
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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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 ...
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1866
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). This portrait was reportedly a favorite of his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chic...
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International Harvester Executive Addis McKinstry

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Description: Portrait of Addis E. McKinstry, CEO of International Harvester, 1933-1935.
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William Marriott Canby, Botanist

Date: 1869
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William Marriott Canby (1831-1904), American botanist and businessman. Canby involved himself in many diverse endeavo...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
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Art Director G.V. Johnson

Date: 12 30 1935
Description: Art Director G.V. Johnson, of International Harvester's Advertising Department in Chicago, sitting at his desk.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Officials

Date: 06 17 1949
Description: Group portrait of the officials for the 1949 Soap Box Derby. Left to right, seated: Sgt. Ed Roman, of the Marine recruiting station; Ralph Hult, president ...
Photograph

Lewis M. Alexander

Date: 11 12 1913
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Lewis M. Alexander, Port Edwards banker and paper manufacturer.
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Charles F. Pfister, Henry C. Payne, and Frank G. Bigelow

Date: 1902
Description: Studio group portrait of (left to right) Charles F. Pfister, Henry C. Payne, and Frank G. Bigelow.

Pfister was a Milwaukee financier, who - among numerou...

Photograph

Victor Lawrence Brown

Date: 05 10 1921
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Victor Lawrence Brown, Milwaukee lawyer and manufacturer.
Photograph

Niels Anton Christensen

Date: 12 19 1914
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Niels Anton Christensen, Milwaukee manufacturer and mechanical engineer.
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W.M. Gilbert

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of W.M. Gilbert, Neenah manufacturer and banker.
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John H. Harris

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of John H. Harris, Elkhorn company president.
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Charles W. Henning

Date: 03 31 1915
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Charles W. Henning, Milwaukee company vice-president.
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J.W. Martin

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

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Fred W. Rogers, Milwaukee banker and manufacturer.
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Edward Clarence Wall

Date: 10 17 1914
Description: Waist-up seated studio profile portrait of Edward Clarence Wall, Milwaukee company president.
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Emanuel A. Wurster

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Seated waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emanuel A. Wurster, Milwaukee company secretary and treasurer.

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