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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Back cover illustration for a William Deering and Company catalog. Deering was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The illustration includes an engra... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the factory of William Deering and Company with inset illustrations of men operating a horse-drawn grain binder and mower. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Engraving from the back of an advertising or trade card showing views of the Warder, Mitchell and Company factory buildings at Springfield, Ohio. The compa... |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery featuring an engraving of the Milwaukee Iron Company foundry. The letter is from an officer of the company to noted geologist Increas... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Engraved bird's-eye view illustration of the "McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's Works," including railroad cars, smoke from smokestacks and factory wo... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A cartoon from "Farm Implement News" stressing the importance of buying domestic binder twine. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Washington County, Wisconsin, with a Native American man wearing buckskin clothes and leggings ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. "The Factory Girl" in red banner across top. “A Great Labor Play” under title top right. Scene depicting a well-dressed woman whee... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the Pabst Brewery showing an elevated view of men working near the copper kettles in a vaulted room. There is a large, stained glass window on ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Editorial cartoon depicting Rodin's "The Thinker" wearing a gas mask. The figure is surrounded by pollution, with a factory spewing smoke in the background... |
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| Description: | Stamp advertising the city of Sheboygan, specifically its many industries. In addition to the stamp title, the stamp includes an illustration of factories,... |
| Date: | 11 06 1975 |
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| Description: | Wesley Scott, executive director of the Milwaukee Urban League, holding a microphone up to a man while interviewing him. On the right a cameraman is holdin... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Lawson plant in Green Bay. Includes a drawing from an aerial perspective of the plant and some of the surrounding area, under the wor... |
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| Description: | Cartoon of a man sitting behind the desk of an office in the Gisholt service department, talking to another man who is carrying a briefcase with the tag "G... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Composite drawing of Santa Claus riding a Gisholt Machine Company lathe as a sleigh and holding a starred whip in hand to guide a team of eight flying rein... |
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