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Photograph

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...
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...
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

Old Man with Pumpkin and Turkey

Date: 1918
Description: An elderly man, possibly a farmer, holds a turkey and a pumpkin under each arm.
Drawing

Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Milwaukee Grain Binder

Date: 1915
Description: Two men and a child, all wearing hats, are at the back of a Milwaukee grain binder. One man is standing with a cradle in his hands. An older man with a bea...
Photograph

Edward P. Bacon

Date: 11 16 1914
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Payson Bacon, Milwaukee railroad executive and merchant.
Photograph

M. E. Burke

Date: 08 21 1915
Description: Quarter-length portrait of M. E. Burke, Beaver Dam attorney.
Photograph

Phillip Gross

Date: 10 29 1913
Description: Waist-up seated studio portrait of Phillip Gross, Milwaukee company president. He has a newspaper in his lap.
Photograph

Charles W. Henning

Date: 03 31 1915
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Charles W. Henning, Milwaukee company vice-president.
Photograph

William L. Jones

Date: 10 02 1914
Description: Waist-up seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William J. Jones, Milwaukee company president.
Photograph

Frederick Layton

Date: 09 03 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Layton, Milwaukee butcher.
Photograph

George C. Markham

Date: 10 01 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of George C. Markham, Milwaukee lawyer and company president.
Photograph

Bruno V. Nordberg

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Bruno V. Nordberg, Milwaukee mechanical engineer.
Photograph

David Stuart Rose

Date: 09 25 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of David Stuart Rose, Milwaukee lawyer.
Photograph

Louis F. Schecker

Date: 09 15 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Louis F. Schecker, Milwaukee company president.
Photograph

Walter Stern

Date: 02 24 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Walter Stern, Milwaukee company president.
Photograph

William Joseph Turner

Date: 09 23 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of William Joseph Turner, Milwaukee lawyer.
Photograph

Henry L. Ward

Date: 02 26 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee naturalist and museum director.
Photograph

Frederick C. Winkler

Date: 12 26 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick C. Winkler, Milwaukee lawyer.

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