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Description: | Cigarette Advertising card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and 1888 winner of "The Sequence Stakes." |
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Description: | Cigarette advertising card produces by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is William Muldoon, wrestler. Muldoon learned how to wrestle in the Civil War camps of t... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Allen and Ginters. John L Sullivan, boxer was considered to be the link between bare knuckles and glove fighting. Co... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is Isaac Lewis, a jockey. Lewis rode in four consecutive Kentucky Derbies, 1886-1889, winn... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Cards produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is Willie Harradon, a cyclist also known as "The Youthful Phenomenon." |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is W.J.M. Barry, Hammer Thrower. |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Cards produced Allen and Ginter. Depicted is John Morrell, a first baseman for Boston. |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is George Bubear, an English sculler. |
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Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
Date: | 12 13 1917 |
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Description: | A color cartoon depicting Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as pro-German, showing Kaiser pinning medals on him. |
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Description: | Illustration of a Javanese woman sewing at a Singer Sewing machine while a Javanese man looks on. |
Date: | 12 1856 |
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Description: | Handbill and order form advertising reaper and mower manufactured by Cyrus Hall McCormick. This describes the gold medal awarded at the "Great French Exhib... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph card of a boy and a girl from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, in "native" Filipino costume, posing next to a Singer sewing ma... |
Date: | 02 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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Description: | Front of dinner menu for the "North American" for the season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Illinois... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Inside of Tuesday luncheon menu for the "South American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Boulev... |
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Description: | Cock-of-the-Rock is named for its distinctive crest. It is from the bird family Cotingidae, and native to the tropical rain forests of South America and G... |
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Description: | The American or Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is the national symbol of the United States. It is the only eagle unique to North America, and is li... |
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Description: | The kingfisher, from the Alcedinidae family is noted for its crested head, bright colors, and long, sharp bill. Most species feed on fish by diving and gr... |
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Description: | The woodpecker is a brightly colored bird of the family, Picidae. It has a stiff tail and strong claws to aid in climbing, and a chisel-like beak for bori... |
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