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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | "The Harmonians" performing at a picnic to raise money for striking Allis-Chalmers workers. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic... |
| Date: | 01 31 1926 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the members of International Harvester's women's choral society. The members worked in the company's general office. A woman in the front... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Group of musicians performing at International Harvester's 1957-1958 Farm Power Revue exhibit at the World's Conservation Exposition and Plowing Contests, ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, horses, and farm machines gathered on the town's main street for a "McCormick Day" celebration, with several grain binders and a b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men are seated holding guitars in luthier Leo Uhlmeyer's store. There are more instruments on the floor in front of them and hanging on the wall behind... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of a guitar maker's workshop, with a workbench, tools, guitars, and other stringed instruments. In the foreground, there is a ghostly image of a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A group of young women at an International Harvester factory (most likely McCormick Works) ride on a parade float reading "Welcome 4-H Club Champions, Inte... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | Les Hartmann and his McCormick-Deering Band at the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Eight men and three women are on a stage, presumably ready to perform fo... |
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| Description: | Two men posing with guitars, one seated and one standing. They are probably in a music store or a musical instrument manufacturer. Several guitars and mand... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica... |
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| Description: | A formation of uniformed men holding musical instruments in a field at Camp Devens, established in 1917. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on a dirt road in front of a strip of commercial buildings to celebrate the arrival of a McCormick agricultural equ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac... |
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| Description: | Billhead of Neese, Kustermann & Root of Green Bay, Wisconsin, stationers, printers, book-binders, and dealers in musical instruments and sewing machines. T... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man sits in his shop, holding a violin. Five more violins are arranged next to him. Caption with original negative reads "Old-time fiddle-maker in his sh... |
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| Description: | Foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young boy in a farmyard playing a flute while sitting on the side of a water ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of flyer, featuring Henry Balabanow, Mardoni and Louise, Lou Karns and The Pheby Sisters. The event was held at the high school gymnasium in ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Catalog featuring calendar pages. The month of April features a man and a woman standing outdoors, each is playing a violin. May features a man using a hor... |
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