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International 806 Wheatland Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1966
Description: Page from an advertising catalog describing the International 806 Diesel Wheatland tractor.
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Toy Model Catalog Cover

Date: 1964
Description: Front cover of an International Harvester catalog of "working toy models", featuring color illustrations of a Farmall 806 tractor and an International pick...
Book or Pamphlet

International Scout Miniature Demonstrator

Date: 1964
Description: Back page of an International Harvester toy catalog. Includes color illustrations of the International Scout "miniature demonstrator" truck with detachable...
Biographical Book Excerpt

Burgess, Ezra, Roy

Date: 1873 - 1967
County: Racine
Biographical Book Excerpt

Nelson, Burton, Edsel

Date: 1867 - 1961
County: Racine
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Farmall 806 Pedal Tractor

Date: 1964
Description: Two-page spread from an International Harvester toy catalog, featuring an illustration of a young boy and dog riding a "Farmall 806 riding tractor and trai...
Photograph

Product Photo Shoot at Hickory Hill

Date: 1961
Description: A man adjusts a light at International Harvester's Hickory Hill studio while preparing to photograph a ball bearing for the company's catalog.
Photograph

Man Photographing Ball Bearing at Hickory Hill

Date: 1961
Description: A man positions a ball bearing prior to photographing it for International Harvester's product catalog at the company's Hickory Hill farm.
Photograph

Photographing Ball Bearing at Hickory Hill Farm

Date: 1961
Description: Overhead view of man adjusting lights and a camera as he prepares to photograph a ball bearing for an International Harvester catalog at the company's Hick...
Photograph

Madison Public Library

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Library patrons crowded together at the card catalog. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library at 206...
Photograph

Creative Playthings

Date: 11 19 1965
Description: In a photograph advertising Creative Playthings, a young boy is sitting on a rocking horse, with climbing apparatus in the background. A catalog shop for C...
Photograph

Photography Studio Set Up at Hickory Hill

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of a man adjusting a light at International Harvester's Hickory Hill studio while preparing to photograph a ball bearing for the company's ca...
Photograph

Leonard Allen

Date: 1962
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Leonard Allen, who was NBC's Washington bureau director of the news operation from 1963-1973. He had a decades-long career in ne...
Photograph

Cement Mill Drive

Date: 09 16 1968
Description: A cement mill drive that was manufactured in the Speed Reducer Department of the Falk Corporation. This drive was later purchased by Fuller Company and use...
Photograph

Photographing International Metro Mite Truck

Date: 1961
Description: Two men set up a photography shot of an International Metro Mite truck in a studio at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm.
Historical Essay

Pink Evergleam Aluminum Christmas Tree

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Six-foot Evergleam Christmas tree with 94 branches made by the Aluminum Specialty Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, c. 1966. (Museum object #2005.174.1.1)
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About the Freedom Summer Project Manuscripts

The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer
Historical Essay

Images of the Underground - Image Gallery Essay

Underground Newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s
Images of the Wisconsin Historical Society's collection of underground newspapers.
Historical Essay

Wisconsin Place File - Image Gallery Essay

Documenting a Sense of Place
View more than 8,000 images of Wisconsin communities: main streets, the built environment, prominent points of interests and some rural scenes.
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Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.

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