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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of dogs fighting over a tu... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features an illustration of a woman and two child... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a passenger pigeon with its head in profile. This species of pigeon is now extinct. The pigeon lived in captivity under the direction of Profe... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct. This bird was part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Prof... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Engraved invitation to the reception and promenade concert held in celebration of the election of President James A. Garfield (left) and Vice President Che... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Thure Kumlien at his work table in the Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien is surrounded by taxidermied birds and is at work stuffing another. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is holding a wreath in her left hand and a Union flag in her right hand. A federal (bald) eagle and a cannon are behind her. A verse to her r... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Federal (bald) eagle attacking a rattlesnake. The eagle has a Union flag in its left talons and a snake in its right, while biting the snake with its beak.... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An owl labeled "SCOTT" seizes a vulture labeled "JEFF DAVIS" by the wing. Feathers litter the ground beneath them. The owl is saying "LET YOU ALONE AND YOU... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this bird's fame. ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. After his death in 1881 he was stuffed, mounted, and put in the Capitol museum.<... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Large volume rare book entitled "United States Exploring Expedition". During the years 1838-1842 and under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. An Atlas o... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio... |
| Date: | 04 06 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam... |
| Date: | 08 01 1889 |
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| Description: | Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background... |
| Date: | 09 1887 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers for the Ninth International Medical Congress banquet, with a female figure draped in a gown with stars and stripes, a head wrap with ... |
| Date: | 12 03 1891 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page for a dinner of the "Loyal Legion. Michigan Commandery with Saginaw Valley Companions at Bancroft House," with the badge of the o... |
| Date: | 08 09 1890 |
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| Description: | One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan... |
| Date: | 08 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the Steamer Japan of the Lake Superior Transit Company, with a panel including a stalk of bamboo, a dragonfly, and a butterfly, and... |
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