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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 ...
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster for Plano brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements and a woman holding two ho...
Photograph

Alexander Lake's Nursery

Date: 1896
Description: A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons...
Photograph

Pillar Rock, Fort Danger

Date: 07 1873
Description: Adams and Juneau Counties. Pillar Rock, Fort Danger. There is a man with an 8 x 10 camera in the foreground.
Photograph

Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
Photograph

Drying Sisal Fibre in Yucatan

Date: 1910
Description: Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production.
Photograph

Workers Hanging Sisal in Yucatan(?)

Date: 1948
Description: Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C...
Photograph

Processing Sisal in the Philippines

Date: 1948
Description: Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines.
Photograph

Farmer Loading Hay Bales into Barn

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a hay loader (elevator) to transport hay bales into a barn loft. A Farmall 504 utility tractor and a Farmall 460 tractor ar...
Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 26 1951
Description: Wisconsin State Journal sports columnist, Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin and "character about town" relaxes on a park bench.
Photograph

McKay Nursery

Date: 05 12 1937
Description: Elevated view of a group of employees standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse.
Photograph

McKay Nursery Branch Office

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: Three men holding up bare root trees at the McKay Nursery Branch Office, 911 University Avenue.
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Corn Planters and Drills

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the Kentucky line of International Harvester corn planters and drills. Cover features an illustration of a farmer...
Book or Pamphlet

Randolph Header Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Randolph header manufactured by the Craver and Steele Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of farme...
Photograph

Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter view towards a man operating a Farmall Cub tractor in a garden.
Photograph

Tunnel at Tunnel City

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
Photograph

Milwaukee Road Railroad

Date: 08 1974
Description: View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background.
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...

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