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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond, a stream, and a lake, with a road dividing the pond and stream from the lake. Industrial buildings and a smokestack are in the bac... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi... |
| Date: | 05 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping of the Glen Oak, Wisconsin train station, a few miles south of Montello on the Chicago and North Western Railway. The caption reads: "St... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low Lift manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a rural road in autumn with the Internat... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Shows lands in green owned and for sale by Homeseekers Land Company, H.J. McKusick, Secretary. Map, part colored. No scale. Photographs on reverse of origi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Black Hawk Tree, Prairie du Chien, Wis." The tree is in the center of an unpaved road. It was rumored that Chief Black Hawk hid within this... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a bridge over the Wisconsin River. Caption reads: "The New Bridge on the Wisconsin, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota... |
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| Description: | Elevated view with the lake on the right, with a number of boats near the shoreline. There is a long winding road through the park, including bridges, a fo... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a booklet advertising the International Harvester Scout V-8 truck. Color photograph shows two Scout vehicles with men driving through snow i... |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s... |
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| Description: | Winter view of Hatton Lumber Company Camp, including a number of buildings and a man riding on a horse-drawn sled. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original color lithograph promoting the Union Pacific Railway Streamliner, and the "City of Denver." In the artist's depiction, a yellow Union Pacific p... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of piles of cut grass in a field. Men on a wagon with a heavy load of hay pulled by a horse can be seen in the background. |
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