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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
Print

Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
Poster

Deering Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old...
Photograph

Employees at Office Christmas Party

Date: 12 1928
Description: International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s...
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...
Photograph

Ansel Adams Measures Bellows

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams measuring the bellows extension of his camera, to help determine the proper exposure, for a photograph to be made in a wooded area...
Photograph

Ansel Adams looking through his Logbook

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams standing near his 8 x 10 field camera and thumbing through his exposure record logbook in a wooded area near Point Lobos.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams takes exposure notes during a photo shoot at Point Lobos.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams checks the time as he records exposure information into his logbook during a photo shoot. His 8 x 10 field camera is in the background.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams adjusts the exposure prior to making a photograph with his 8 x 10 field camera at Point Lobos.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams replaces the dark slide into the camera having just made a photograph at Point Lobos.
Photograph

Cutting Crew in the Woods

Date: 1900
Description: A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees.
Photograph

Two Men with International Truck on the Natchez Trace Parkway

Date: 09 12 1938
Description: Charles Thomas, manager of the Jackson, Mississippi International Harvester dealership, leans against an International truck while speaking with Robert D. ...
Photograph

"The Mud King"

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A bearded young man, Michael McCormick of Madison, was crowned the "The Mud King." He is covered in dark mud from the banks of nearby Rowan Creek holding a...
Photograph

Union Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1951
Description: The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli...
Photograph

Large Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men working on haying operation in a field. Two men are driving horse-drawn wagons piled high with hay. One man is standing near one wagon holding an imple...
Photograph

Self-Portrait of Photographer Wearing Cape

Date: 1930
Description: The photographer stands on a park or garden path holding his gloves. He wears a coat with attached cape, hat, and large cravat.
Photograph

Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
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 ...
Photograph

Men with Sickle Bar Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Three men posing with a piece of McCormick agricultural machinery, possibly a sickle bar mower (?). The writing on the machine reads, "McCormick H.M. Co. H...
Photograph

Men with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re...

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