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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick

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Description: Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reap...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1890
Description: Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) by the American Biographical Publication Co., Chicago, Illinois. Mr. McCormick was the son of in...
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Leander J. McCormick

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Description: Engraved portrait of Leander James McCormick (1819-1900) by the Century Publishing and Engraving Company. Leander was a younger brother of Cyrus Hall McCor...
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Portrait of William Horlick

Date: 1936
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart.
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
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Solomon Juneau, Founder of Milwaukee

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait engraving of Solomon Laurent Juneau (1793-1856), Wisconsin fur trader and politician.
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Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
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Eisenhower Christmas

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Description: Holiday card from D.C. Everest, Wisconsin paper industrialist. The front of the card reads "After twenty years we have again established sanity in governme...
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Wild Rose Stock Farm Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wild Rose Stock Farm, breeder of pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cattle, in Watertown, Wisconsin. Includes a halftone image of E.E. Randall i...
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Fisher Brothers Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Fisher Brothers, druggists in Baraboo, Wisconsin, with framed halftone images of the three brothers and a printed advertisement on one side f...
Photograph

John F. Steward

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of John F. Steward, head of International Harvester's Patent Department. Steward had previously worked for the Deering Harvester Company.
Postcard

World's Largest Cheese, Made by Steve's Cheese

Date: 1965
Description: Colored postcard view of Mr. & Mrs. Steve Siudzinski, owners of Steve's Cheese, in front of a 34,591 pound block of cheddar cheese draped with prize winnin...
Postcard

Builder of the World's Largest Cheeses

Date: 1960
Description: Steve Siudzinski, owner of Steve's Cheese, standing in front of a vault that is holding a block of cheddar cheese weighing 13,913 lbs, and marked MFD. 1958...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Nathan Paine

Date: 1898
Description: Head and shoulders portrait drawing of Nathan Paine of Paine Lumber Company who brought charges against George Zentner and Michael Troiber in the Oshkosh l...
Poster

Practical Aeronautics

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I...
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Frank Fargo Advertisement

Date: 1904
Description: An advertising card includes a photograph of a man in an open carriage holding the reins of a team of Holstein-Friesian cattle. Two well-dressed men are si...
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Silver Lake Hotel

Date: 1919
Description: View of a roadside hotel, with an inset portrait of the proprietor at the top left. Automobiles are in the parking lot. Caption reads: "Silver Lake Hotel, ...
Photograph

Abraham G. Adams

Date: 1878
Description: Lithographic portrait of the Honorable Abraham G. Adams, a boot and shoe salesman in Burlington, IA. His success in business led him to invest in the devel...

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