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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for a film produced by International Harvester in which "the tractor's constructive influence is symbolized in typical scenes - plowing,... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg... |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction. |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Tartaglia, a rotund figure who w... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "'Commissary supplies are adequate,' said Purchasing agent Ed Cronin (extreme left) of the corporation for the news reel (march of ... |
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