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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | Front view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| Date: | 07 23 1885 |
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| Description: | Mourning Badge with the image of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | February 9-11, 1956, page of Willet S. Main's diary. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | View of a long-sleeve, brown and white checked dress worn by Cora Cundiff. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Tin sign used to identify a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership or agency. Includes a portrait of Cyrus McCormick and illustrations of a "harve... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t... |
| Date: | 1811 |
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| Description: | A pair of off-white, kid leather women's shoes with shirred ribbon decoration on the top. They were most likely worn by Sylvia (Putnam) Hamilton (donor Gra... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A handheld fan made of wood and cloth. This fan depicts the event it was made to commemorate — the 1878 Exposition Universelle held in Paris, France. The f... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Front cover of Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways, with an image of a man and a woman paddling a rowboat on a river. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Seven yarn samples from St. Paul Knitting Works, dated between April 7, 1888 and February 21, 1889, affixed to a page in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample bo... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Colorful patterned wool fabric in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample book. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Copper plate physiognotrace of Carsten Tank, the father of Nils Otto Tank of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Subject faces left (proper right) wearing a coat, tie, a... |
| 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: | Two photographs featuring Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo holding her son Stuart are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted pussy willow t... |
| 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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