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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
Painting

Bad Axe Battleground

Date: 1856
Description: This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
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Snags (Sunken Trees on the Missouri River)

Date: 1832
Description: Steamboat navigating through sunken trees on the Missouri River.
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Junction of the Yellowstone River with the Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Junction of the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River.
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The Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: The Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri River.
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Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Book or Pamphlet

Amouroux Freres Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of French advertising brochure for Amouroux Freres agricultural equipment featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of an angel, bird, flowers ...
Painting

Cover of Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape

Date: 1972
Description: Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a red wing blackbird perching on cattail flowers in a body of water. The Wisco...
Photograph

Antique Christmas Cards

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Four antique Christmas cards. At the top left is a copper engraved robin card, 1840. Top right is a harp and rose greeting card hand-painted in 1800. Lower...
Photograph

WIBA Fern Room

Date: 12 05 1930
Description: WIBA fern room with piano, organ, ferns, and a turntable. There is a Teddy Bear on top of the organ on the right, and on the left is a bird in a birdcage.
Photograph

Two Birds at Nest Display

Date: 09 11 1930
Description: Display of two birds at nest, one bird on nest with eggs and the other bird nearby.
Photograph

Mrs. Nagler with two Birds

Date: 09 11 1930
Description: Two birds on Mrs. Nagler's shoulder.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Whitewater

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets.
Drawing

Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
Book or Pamphlet

Bluebell Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Bluebell line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a woman encountering a bird an...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
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Spanish McCormick Binder and Header Catalog Cover

Date: 1927
Description: Spanish advertising catalog for McCormick binders and headers. Title on catalog reads: "La Espigadora 'Picaflor' McCormick" and features an illustration of...
Drawing

Shooting Wild Pigeons

Date: 09 21 1867
Description: Illustration of four men shooting at a thick flock of wild pigeons. Hunting dogs are gathered around them in the field, which has a number of dead birds.

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