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Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Painting

Bad Axe Battleground

Date: 1856
Description: This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of...
Painting

Sunset from Lake Monona

Date: 1881
Description: Sunset from Lake Monona.
Drawing

Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau

Date: 1872
Description: The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Wooded Hillside Early Morning

Date: 07 1965
Description: Wooded hillside in early morning fog, in the Spring Green-Dodgeville area.
Photograph

Upper Campus from Library

Date: 1900
Description: The view of Bascom Hill and upper campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison seen from the roof of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1948
Description: View towards a man in a field on a Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou...
Photograph

Men on Cliff

Date: 
Description: View looking up at three men standing on top of a rock formation, possibly Gibraltar Rock. The men are silhouetted against the sky, with their right arms o...
Photograph

Grand Dad Bluff

Date: 1955
Description: Grand Dad Bluff in La Crosse
Photograph

Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte...
Photograph

Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: View of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's to test...
Photograph

International Harvester 1460 Combine

Date: 1980
Description: View across field towards an International Harvester 1460 combine (harvester-thresher).
Photograph

Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: View of the Wisconsin River from Cactus Bluff.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol at Night

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol at night with moon in background.
Photograph

Feast for the Lotus-Eater

Date: 1957
Description: Lotus beds on Mississippi River in the foreground and middleground. Bluffs are in the background.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Couple Posed on Rocky Area

Date: 
Description: View of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing, and a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on a rocky outcrop near a tree. Far below in the background are fields, hills, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Photograph

Rolling Farmland

Date: 06 1967
Description: Elevated landscape view of farmland rolling to the horizon. Patches of trees grow throughout the pastures.

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