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Kickapoo River Bridge

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Description: View down a metal bridge over the Kickapoo River showing a truck parked on the far side of the bridge. A man and a boy are standing at the rail of the brid...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration on the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a Persian horseman on the side of a cliff looking down upon ...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Farmall M Tractor and No. 52-R Combine

Date: 1944
Description: Farmer Paul Eblen operating a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with attached McCormick-Deering no. 52-R combine in a 110 acre wheat field. The machines ...
Photograph

Farmer Harvests Grain on Steep Hill with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer harvesting grain on a hill or ridge with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder near Pittsburgh. In the background is a va...
Photograph

Isolated Shack

Date: 09 24 1960
Description: An isolated shack that was formerly an antique dealer's store.
Photograph

CH-34A Helicoper

Date: 1963
Description: A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting...
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Experimental McCormick-Deering Combine and Farmall M Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated view of men field testing an experimental McCormick-Deering 12 foot combine with a Farmall M tractor.
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Aztalan State Park

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Description: Little girl under the "Aztalan Mound Park" sign, in a field. Another person stands in the background on one of the mounds.
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Commemorative Stamp Sketch

Date: 07 1947
Description: One of two pencil sketches submitted by Leon Pescheret of Whitewater, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin Centennial Committee to be considered for the Wisconsin C...
Drawing

Wisconsin Postage Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: A red Wisconsin themed stamp design.
Photograph

Locks on Mississippi River

Date: 1935
Description: Locks on the Mississippi River, a nine foot channel. A man is standing above the locks. Bluffs are in the background.
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Carter's Siding

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Description: Carter's Siding, a small railroad depot in "cutover" country, showing strong evidence of why formerly forested regions of northern Wisconsin were so named.
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Panoramic View of the Chicago Great Western Train Traveling

Date: 1937
Description: A panoramic view of the Chicago Great Western train traveling across the countryside carrying assorted International Harvester wagons. The majority of the ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Spokane Natural

Date: 11 22 1968
Description: Cover of "Spokane Natural," an underground newspaper, depicting lightbulb form, comprised of a man's face, a landscape, and other elements. "lns, ups" in u...
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Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior of square brick building, on a hill with a retaining wall and steps leading up to the front entrance. Designed by John J. Flad & Associates (Archi...
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Pathfinder Car near Bridge

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Description: The Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder car driving from a road onto a bridge.
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McCormick Binder on Hill Overlooking Town and Lake

Date: 1900
Description: A man is operating a McCormick horse-drawn binder on a hill with a view of a town and lake in the background.
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Depot

Date: 1909
Description: View from railroad tracks of a group of six people standing on the platform of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot. Beyond the depot is a water tower...
Photograph

Soldiers with Truck and Airplane

Date: 1943
Description: Uniformed soldiers use a ladder to unload objects from a U.S. Army C-47 airplane labeled "Green Goon." An International truck appears in the foreground wi...
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Jaws of the Dells

Date: 1910
Description: The Locks and Jaws of the Dells in winter, taken at Devil's Elbow. The roof of the Larks Hotel, with the hotel's name on it, is visible in the background.

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