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Book or Pamphlet

"Fashion Suggester" Illustration

Date: 1909
Description: An illustration of two men modeling spring suits with a domed building in the background, as shown in the spring and summer issue of the "Fashion Suggester...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Book or Pamphlet

Adriance Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of a catalog for Adriance, Platt & Company featuring an illustration of a woman in a wheat field. Adriance, Platt & Co. manufactured Buckeye and Triu...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Print

Dancing Master of America Advertisement

Date: 
Description: Advertising piece from a New York convention of the Dancing Masters of America. Featured are DM of A master faculty: Judith Ann Sproule and F.W. Kehl (walt...
Book or Pamphlet

Donations for Sufferers of Yellow Fever

Date: 09 28 1878
Description: An illustration depicting well-dressed ferry passengers depositing money in the yellow fever box at Fulton Ferry. A sign reads: "Contributions recieved (
Print

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1929
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a stylish woman dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and boots, and red hat, carrying a large striped round box with holly on the h...
Book or Pamphlet

Advertisement for International Speed Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Cover of a booklet advertising custom-built bodies for International speed trucks featuring an Art Deco illustration of a man driving an International truc...
Print

My Fashionable Valentine

Date: 
Description: Valentine's Day illustration, clipped from a newspaper, of a women with an enormous hat with feathers, puffed sleeves and voluminous skirt. Script below is...
Magazine or Periodical

Douglas & Sherwood's Expansion Skirt

Date: 05 1858
Description: An illustration in "Godey's Lady's Book" of a steel expansion skirt.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Orphan Train Arrival

Date: 04 30 1909
Description: Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies."
Postcard

Ladies Picking Cherry Blossoms

Date: 1910
Description: Spring postcard of women wearing pastel dresses, picking cherry blossoms. The scene is within an architectural themed frame with a potted tree on either si...
Postcard

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 08 09 1920
Description: Text on the front reads: "M.E. Church, Waukesha, Wis." Three women and a child stand in the street in front of a limestone church built in 1895 in the Rich...
Postcard

Whitefish Bay Summer Resort

Date: 01 03 1901
Description: Text on front reads: "Glückliches Neues Jahr [Happy New Year]. Whitefish Bay Summer Resort." A crowd of people are enjoying the grounds and view at a resor...
Postcard

Fern Dell County School

Date: 1950
Description: Text on the reverse reads: "The Fern Dell County School at The Pioneer Village Museum at Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Built in 1883 and used every year until 1955...

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