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Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
Date: | 09 11 1937 |
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Description: | A male soda jerk is standing behind the semi-circular counter in the Bancroft Dairy fountain room, with seven customers eating ice cream. |
Date: | 06 25 1932 |
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Description: | Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer. |
Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ... |
Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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Description: | Railroad construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking west up the 400 and 500 blocks of East Wilson Street. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | French advertising poster for Deering brand 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an artistic rendering of a man on a tractor driving into the sunset leaving f... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering Ronning ensilage harvester. Includes color illustration and the text: "Ensilage in One Operation." |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering manure spreaders. Includes color illustration and the text: "No man ever made a mistake by investing in modern equ... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering manure spreaders showing color and black and white illustrations of various features. |
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: | 1930 |
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Description: | Howard Russell standing next to his dog team pulling the "Traino." Russell and the team are ready to leave Madeline Island with the U.S. Mail. |
Date: | 05 08 1939 |
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Description: | Elevated rear view of two men in a field operating a new McCormick-Deering F-20 tractor and M-4 power binder, which was owned and operated by Grover Evans,... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor. Includes the text: "Burns Distillate with Unexcelled Efficiency; Sturdy- Compact- For All Farm W... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for Farmall A, Farmall H, and Farmall M tractors featuring a color illustration of the "culti-vision" feature and the text: "If it isn't... |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors, featuring the F-12, F-20 and F-30. Includes the text "low-cost power the whole year round on Dra... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for "quick-detachable" farm implements for use with the McCormick-Deering F-12 tractor. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A train is shown at the intersection of Williamson, S. Blair, and E. Wilson Streets in front of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot. |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | In an obvious publicity stunt, a Northwest Airways pilot delivers the first case of post-Prohibition Atlas Beer to Madison distributor Ira Chambers. The sh... |
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