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Woman in Man's Suit

Date: 03 17 1963
Description: A woman modeling a men's suit, while holding an umbrella and wearing a top hat. She is reflected by a mirror in the background.
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

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Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

Hop Picking

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Description: Slightly elevated view of hop pickers in hop yard, in the vicinity of Mirror Lake.
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Airlines Dedication

Date: 08 03 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N...
Photograph

Woman with Umbrella that Short-Circuited Power Line

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Mrs. Marian M. (Mary) Hammang, secretary in the office of the University of Wisconsin buildings and grounds, posing with an umbrella that was blown by high...
Photograph

Man and Woman on Location for "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

Woman with Parasol on Front Lawn of Farmhouse

Date: 1925
Description: View of a woman posing holding a parasol while sitting on the front lawn of a farmhouse on an International Harvester demonstration farm. Other people are ...
Poster

International Harvester Centennial Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro...
Photograph

Wendt's on the Lake — Exterior

Date: 07 06 2007
Description: "At the outdoor table at Wendt's On The Lake "Fish Fry" were (clockwise from left) Conner and Sue Minnick; Nancy and Rex Breger; John Bodden; Buddy Ruecker...
Photograph

Tello's Grille and Cafe — Interior

Date: 07 24 2009
Description: "Sarah was our waitress when we visited Tello's in Port Washington." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, John P. Widmer, Shirley Widmer, and Sarah."...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Spain

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in Spain: Spanish men and women in the field w...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Spain

Date: 1909
Description: Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a harvesting scene in Spain: Spanish men and women in the field w...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
Photograph

Queen's Guild of Our Lady Queen of Peace Church Style Show

Date: 02 03 1961
Description: Models for the style show feature of the annual card party of the Queen's Guild of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church are Mary Conlin, left, and Mrs. ...
Photograph

Bathing Beauty Contest

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: Elevated view of crowd at E.H. Myrland's Farm's Sky Lodge at the bathing beauty contest at the dedication of a new swimming pool at the resort which opened...
Photograph

Television Crews Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A camera operator is filming a reporter outside the Milwaukee Theater at the Republican presidential debate. Other television crews are setting up their eq...
Photograph

Westgate Theater-Go-Round Troupe

Date: 06 23 1960
Description: The new theater troupe moving into its headquarters at the West Side Businessmen's Club. Left to right are: Raff Brewster, managing director, and David Thu...
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Threshering Operation

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Description: Men are using a tractor to belt-drive a thresher in a field. Women are standing near a ladder in the center. A man wearing a hat, long coat, and holding an...

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