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Date: | 03 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp. |
Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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Description: | Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co... |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent... |
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Description: | Pages 1-2 of the Songbook for the "S.S. North American" includes an index and the lyrics for 2 songs. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Indians on horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 9). "Some sixty or seventy young men, all mounted on their wild horses, and armed with bows and lances only... |
Date: | 1971 |
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Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International Travelall tow wagons with the slogan: "Get away from it all." Features color photograph of a campi... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two men are hunting with rifles in the Wisconsin woods. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. Instead of shooting a deer, one hunter shoots a giant ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Three men ride a dairy cow on a dirt road, while a fourth pulls at the cow's tail. Of the three men, one is holding a tennis racket, one is holding a golf ... |
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