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Merchant's Gargling Oil

Date: 1881
Description: Two advertising cards featuring a color illustration of a caricature of a baseball player. The card on the left is titled: "A close Affair. Hugging the Bat...
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Sheridan's Powder Advertising Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card with the heading: "To make hens lay, use Sheridan's condition powder." Features a color illustration of a man in a hen house on the left h...
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Train with Snow Thrower

Date: 1881
Description: Winter scene with three men posing in front of a locomotive with a snow thrower attached to the front of the engine. The snow trough, barely wider than the...
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Frederick Jackson Turner

Date: 1881
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Frederick Jackson Turner in his sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin. He wears a Kappa Psi Phi pin on his tie.
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Parry Norw[egian] Luth[eran] Church

Date: 1881
Description: Exterior of Perry Lutheran Evangelical Church, which is misspelled in the caption as "Parry Norw. Luth. Church." The photograph was taken some time between...

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