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| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pier and a ship at Chicago, taken from aboard another vessel. Taken by the Richard Lloyd Jones family during their move from Madison to Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes is operating a horse-drawn mower in a patch of grass along a waterfront, while another man wearing a hat and tie is looking on. Ships... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster listing officers and men, most notably Colonel Cadwallader C. Washburn. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man identified in original caption as "Mr. Duncan" on board the ship Buffalo as part of the Root Commission's trip to Russia. A goat appears to be l... |
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| Description: | View of a stained glass window erected in 1920 in honor of the women of Plymouth Plantation. On the center panel, a ship is in the bay while a man and wom... |
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| Description: | View of a painting entitled, "Pilgrims and Indian Meeting." The piece features pilgrims arriving on the shore and encountering a Native American. |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | A cat is sitting atop a chalkboard with blackout orders written on it as a crew member from the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta fixes the sm... |
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| Description: | View of a group of men freighting goods by dogsled across ice from the S.S. Corwin offshore. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A giraffe sticks its head out of an opening in a wooden box carried on the bed of an International D-40 as the animal is transported from New York to Calif... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
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| Description: | The world is flat; we get around this stretched credulity by going straight as an arrow and meeting ourselves in a space of time |
| Date: | 07 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Farewell dinner menu in the form of a house decorated with folk art painting and trim, and a man and a woman in traditional dress perched at the two open w... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing, one on the left with a pistol, and one on the right with a rifle, both aiming their weapons at a dog, which is sitting on its hind le... |
| Date: | 05 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from the luncheon menu for the Cunard White Star ship R.M.S. Queen Mary, with figurines of a white lamb and a shepherd and... |
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