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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | The tractor-trailer used to transport and display the world's largest cheese at the 1964 World's Fair held in New York. The 34,591 pound cheddar was made i... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | The magnificent Newhall House, a hotel that dwarfed the neighboring buildings, opened in 1857. Hölzlhuber completed this sketch for the Neue illustriert... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Ludemann's [also spelled Lueddemann] farm had been cultivated since the early 1850s by Mr. Ludemann, "a very pleasant Saxon with his very pleasant wife... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Departing from Lake Winnebago, Hölzlhuber boarded the Plymouth, a high, narrow steamboat that was built specially for navigating the narrow and some... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | In September 1859, by which time he was a regular contributor to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, Hölzlhuber took his first extensive trip to lower... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber received a request from the German theater director Henry Börnstein in St. Louis, Missouri, to purchase his theater sets and music. Accordingly,... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Watercolor of the "Old Milton House" done by Mrs. Louise Westby of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad during... |
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| Description: | Humorous painting of two men, with bulbous red noses, are drinking cocktails inside a bar at the counter by the tavern front window. They are wearing hats ... |
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