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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: | 1884 |
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Description: | Press ticket for the Republican National Convention in Chicago, decorated with an engraving of the White House. |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Guest ticket to the Republican National Convention held in Chicago at the partially completed Auditorium Building. The Auditorium is one of the best known... |
Date: | 1889 |
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Description: | Ticket for the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. This ticket belonged to William Freeman Vilas of Wisconsin, the Secretary of the Interior. The ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | 1860 Presidential Democratic ticket headed by John C. Breckenridge (it should be spelled Breckinridge), and the vice-president, Joseph Lane, that was distr... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Engraved letterhead of the firm of Smith, Mendel & Co., a wholesale grocery merchant. William E. Smith was a prominent Milwaukee businessman, partner in th... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Letterhead stationery of Wendell Anderson, the mayor of La Crosse, with an engraving of city hall. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Letterhead stationery of David S. Rose, the mayor of Milwaukee, showing an engraving of Milwaukee City Hall. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
Date: | 07 10 1880 |
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Description: | Large crowd of people in ter hall for the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. |
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: | 04 05 1862 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles. |
Date: | 02 28 1863 |
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Description: | The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally... |
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Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
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: | 1895 |
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Description: | Drawing of the lake steamer, Michigan with another vessel in the background. |
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