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| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain... |
| 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: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Postcard with a color illustration of men and women working in fields. Original caption: "India — Primitive methods are still in use. The Reaping Hook has ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ... |
| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Manchester's Department Store model modeling a dress, hat, and purse in front of the Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Two Manchester's Department Store coed models, wearing dresses, hats and purses, posing on the steps of Langdon Hall, 633 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 08 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Manchester's Department Store coed model, wearing dress, hat and purse, poses beside the Memorial Union on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 05 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov... |
| Date: | 04 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Artist Frances Hawkins sitting in a wicker chair and painting at the easel in her studio. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
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