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Description: | Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ... |
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Description: | Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
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Description: | We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake But the community interests ought to come fir... |
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Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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Description: | Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated, their better natures, surfacing through waves of church-worn care, prevailed over... |
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Description: | That morning is adrift in passing; it cannot last the day. Those years are anchored to each other; there is no other way. |
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Description: | The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument to learn that Grace, in an... |
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Description: | You came to know that book by its covered distance, well remembered by the measure of the trudging barefoot mile |
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Description: | On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead to tell us who we are and what the odds. Don't count; a promise is no more than just a s... |
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Description: | Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings, the quick-step dried and gone to the bone. Embrace the wall and face away from trouble in the winter ... |
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Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
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Description: | We always know what day it is Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee that stepson drives along the road and all the dog... |
Date: | 05 03 1937 |
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Description: | Menu for an Aloha Dinner on the Japanese passenger ship, M.S. Chichibu Maru, printed on a folding paper and bamboo hand fan, with painted blue irise... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Three of Hearts displays a drawing of the "Beautiful Orient." Two obelisks f... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | An original poem and watercolor paintings of colored maple leaves, all by Louise Mears Fargo, decorate an album page with a photograph of her three childre... |
Date: | 03 08 1898 |
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Description: | An album page featuring five circular portraits of Stuart Fargo. At center is a head and (bare) shoulders portrait of him at age eight months. At the four ... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A decorated album page features a photograph of Stuart Fargo at age two years. He is wearing a nightgown and is barefoot. There is a wicker chair on the le... |
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