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McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Print

Buffalo Hunt, Surround

Date: 1844
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...

Postcard

Union Depot

Date: 1908
Description: Union Depot with clock tower. The railroad station with clock tower is behind a park. Horse-drawn vehicles are near the entrance. Caption reads: "Union Dep...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Engines in the Field

Date: 1913
Description: Page from a "IHC Newspaper and Catalogue Electrotype Service" booklet titled "IHC Engines in the Field." Clockwise from top left, the illustration captions...
Print

American House

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Description: Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the...
Postcard

Union Depot

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Description: Union Depot with clock tower. Railroad station on left side, with clock tower. Park area on right with horse-drawn vehicles near the entrance. Caption read...
Poster

The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...
Print

H.S. Mack & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of H.S. Mack & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the company building, including people walking and driving horse-dr...
Print

Plankinton House Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Plankinton House in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the hotel and traffic in the street, including people on foot, on hors...
Print

Bay State Foundry & Machine Shop Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wm. Goodnow Bay State Foundry & Machine Shop, or "Bay State" Iron Works, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which fabricated steam engines and boil...
Print

Cameron, Amberg & Co. Billhead

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Description: Memohead of Cameron, Amberg & Company of Chicago, Illinois, a printer, stationer, and manufacturer of blank books and letter files. On the left is a view o...
Print

Pioneer Beer, Label

Date: 1937
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Beer, G. Weber Brewing Co." Under this in the center is a leaf with the lett...
Photograph

Temporary Quarters for New Comers From Indiana

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional card advertising farming land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts four settler men, their two horses, and their dog outside a temporary ...
Postcard

Third Avenue Looking East

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized postcard view of the central business district. The street is lined with businesses and street lamps. A man and a dog are in front of the bank on...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Harbert & Raymond Catalog

Date: 1872
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring an illustration of an agricultural engine with a team of two horses. The engine was made by Wood, Taber & Morse, for Harber...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Book or Pamphlet

Western Wheeled Scraper Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders.
Poster

"Winter Wind" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Hungarian film, "Sirokkó." Illustrated image of the faces of two women and a man, with o...

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