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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud." |
| Date: | 10 1910 |
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| Description: | The cover of John T. Trowbridge's poetry book, "Darius Green and his Flying Machine," illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith and published by Houghton Mifflin Co... |
| Date: | 07 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the ship the Charles C. West splashing into the Manitowoc River with a large crowd gathered to watch. |
| Date: | 09 28 1918 |
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| Description: | Soldiers parade with guns bearing American flags past Schuette Brothers clothing store at the corner of S. 8th and Jay Streets as spectators look on. There... |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | Bridge on the Manitowoc River raised to allow the Pere Marquette car ferry through. River dredging equipment can be seen in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Engraved bird's-eye view of the wood shop, warehouse, machine shop, dry kilns, and foundry of the Manitowoc Seating Company. Several people pass in front o... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Construction crew raising a brick building. The structure is entirely surrounded by scaffolding. A large stone piece is being hoisted into place while a wo... |
| Date: | 05 10 1942 |
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| Description: | USS "Peto" (SS-265), a Gato-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the peto, a sharp-nosed tropical fish of the mackerel family. "... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a missionary priest wearing a robe standing in the fore of a canoe as it comes ashore paddled by a person in the aft. An Indian on ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of piles of cut grass in a field. Men on a wagon with a heavy load of hay pulled by a horse can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of a straight gravel path through an informally planted garden. The side and roof of a building can be seen on the right. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Backyard garden with a plank path bordered on one side by a wooden fence. A clothesline stretches across the yard from a fence post. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Perspective drawing of the buildings at the Hayward Indian School. There is a man in a boat in the right foreground and an empty boat in the left foregroun... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye view illustration of the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. The company was founded in 1895 by four Madison businessmen, Conrad M. Con... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Map of the barley-growing regions of North America, published by the Rahr Malting Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1952. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man... |
| Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies." |
| Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping titled: "The Little Darling" shows a couple holding an orphan train child as two other women look on. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Illustration on cover of a book written about the history of the typewriter covering 1873-1923. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Map showing territory controlled by the Finches, a family of bandits who terrorized south central Wisconsin in the years prior to the Civil War. The map in... |
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