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The Unwilling Bride

Date: 1847
Description: An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily.
Poster

McKinley Campaign Poster

Date: 1896
Description: Organizational poster for a young men's Republican Club in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to support the 1896 Presidential campaign of William McKinley. The Presiden...
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Tried by Fire Advertising

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising pamphlet for Susan Frackelton's Tried by Fire. The ad features quotations from reviews and drawings of several medals won by...
Photograph

Gun and Canteen

Date: 1865
Description: Overhead view of a musket, canteen, scabbard, and bayonet.
Print

Northwestern Amateur Boating Association Banquet Menu

Date: 07 13 1871
Description: Menu printed on taupe silk for a banquet given to the Northwestern Amateur Boating Association by the Milwaukee Boat Club at Newhall House. At the top is a...
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R.M.S.S. Magdalena Dinner Menu

Date: 08 09 1890
Description: One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Banner Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Top of cover reads: "Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Buckeye Banner Binder." Features an illustration of a man and woman discussing the set up ...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover for "The Standard Mowing Machines."
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: Catalog cover featuring miniature elves or fairies harvesting grain with axes.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvester & Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of miniature elves or fairies cavorting in a three-tiered stack of wheat shocks. One stands at the top...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th...
Book or Pamphlet

Nichols, Shepard & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1871
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring "The Improved, Grain Saving 'Vibrator' Threshers."
Book or Pamphlet

Peerless Reaper Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1880
Description: Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ...
Book or Pamphlet

The New Champion Catalog Cover

Date: 1894
Description: Cover features a ribbon reading "The New Champion" against an ornate framed background of green and embossed gold in. Two round frames have a silhouette ag...

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