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McCormick-Deering Cultivator with Tobacco Attachment

Date: 07 29 1924
Description: Rear view of a cultivator with a tobacco attachment on a factory floor. The seat is pushed up.
Photograph

Man in Tobacco Drying Shed

Date: 1907
Description: View of a man leaning on a support beam in a shed. Tobacco leaves are hanging in strips.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Waunakee

Date: 10 1894
Description: A Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Waunakee.
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 08 22 1928
Description: Mr. Klein farm showing use of "Red Steer" fertilizer on tobacco field, looking west.
Photograph

Tobacco Bar, W.N. Connay Building, and Leonard Eberhardt Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards three buildings. On the far left is theTobacco Bar. In the middle is the W.N. Connay Building, which contains The Bottom H...
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 07 1936
Description: Straight rows of tobacco plants flourishing in a large field. There are farm buildings and a windmill in the background. Utility poles on the are on the ri...
Photograph

Zion City Signs

Date: 1930
Description: Two signs are taped to the inside of the glass in a double hung window in a wood sided building. The photographer is reflected in the lower left corner of ...
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 
Description: A tobacco field next to a wooden building.
Map or Atlas

A New Map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Date: 1719
Description: Map of Maryland and surrounding states. It shows the boundaries, counties, cities, towns, rivers, and bays. Mountains, forests, and swamps appear pictoria...
Photograph

East Main Street Looking S.E.

Date: 
Description: View across East Main Street towards a row of businesses, looking southeast. From the left, the corner building has a tobacco shop with a law office above,...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 12 1912
Description: Sanborn Map of Sun Prairie. The map highlights the public and parochial schools, the exhange, and church buildings, etc.
Photograph

We Are Power Farmers

Date: 1924
Description: A middle-aged man stands holding an agricultural implement in a field of tobacco plants. A sign next to him reads: "We Are Power Farmers Using Fordson Trac...
Photograph

Viola Court House

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the "Viola Court House" — a small wooden building where one can find the Justice of the Peace. Posters on the exterior walls promote an up...
Photograph

Tobacco Warehouse Which Pay Annually $12,000 for Labor

Date: 
Description: View across unpaved road of the front of a brick two-story tobacco warehouse. Three men are posed standing on the stoop in front of the door. A barefoot gi...
Photograph

M.H. Bekkedal Warehouse

Date: 
Description: M.H. Bekkedale and E. Rosenwald and Brothers Leaf Tobacco warehouse. There is a boxcar on tracks near the warehouse, and a bluff in the far background.
Photograph

Saloon Interior

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of a saloon. A bartender stands behind the bar, and another man wearing a hat stands in front of the bar. The back of the carved wood bar is mirro...
Photograph

Cabbage, Tobacco Plants, and Sweet Corn

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: A plot of land in front of a row of houses features cabbage in the foreground, ripe, four-foot tall Havana seed leaf tobacco plants in the center, and swee...
Drawing

Progressive, Emblem

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Drawing submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The drawing includes the word "Progressive" in blue and white letters over the shap...
Photograph

Winston Salem Tobacco Warehouse

Date: 
Description: Two men sit on piles of tobacco in a large warehouse with a number of rows of cured tobacco. Along the edges of the warehouse men are seated and standing.
Photograph

Tobacco Field with Farmstead in Background

Date: 1874
Description: Tobacco field in foreground, with haystacks, barn with cupola, nad house with people standing in front of it. Other small wood farm buildings are in the ba...

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