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Homer Bigart with Elderly Couple

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times".
Print

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...
Photograph

Wrights' Neighbor

Date: 07 02 1909
Description: Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Ray Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Deering Works Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of...
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

Photo Copy Service Building

Date: 06 20 1944
Description: Exterior view of the Photo Copy Service building at 211 West Mifflin Street, next to Pettersen's carpets and linoleum, 209 West Mifflin Street. Also shown ...
Photograph

Fauerbach Palm Garden Refreshment Stand

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: Palm Garden refreshment stand with three men behind a bar, with tables and chairs, and decorative palm trees. The stand was set up at the East Side Busines...
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.
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Mrs. Frances Hawkins Painting in the Studio

Date: 04 25 1932
Description: Artist Frances Hawkins sitting in a wicker chair and painting at the easel in her studio.

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