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| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
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| Description: | An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot. The image shows a very detailed aerial view of a hillside with a tramway traversing the side. There a... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a First Congregational Church. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Park Hotel, with city traffic in the streets in the foreground. "'Park Hotel' South Corner Capitol Park." The reverse side gives a des... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno... |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 1615 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Native Americans chasing deer into an enclosure during a hunt. |
| Date: | 02 28 1863 |
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| Description: | The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
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| Description: | Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Ocatagon House, the residence of Mrs. Eliza Richards. Several trees dot the landscape and other buildings can be seen in the distance at right... |
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| Description: | Engraving of Connecticut Hall, Yale's first permanent building, completed in 1752. The engraving shows a front view of the original Yale building, and a fe... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Acme White Lead & Color Works of Detroit, Michigan, which as part of its business produced insecticides for farm and home garden applicat... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Vernon Valley Farm, a breeder of Percheron and coach horses, shorthorn cattle, Berkshire hogs, Bronze turkeys, and Wyandotte chickens from Mt... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Badger State Tobacco Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the building, men working on boats moored near the water... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Willow Works, a manufacturer of children's carriages, willow ware, and toys, with a three-quarter view of the company building,... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Newspaper engraving of the building at Randolph and Dearborn Streets that served as the McCormick General Office from 1879 to 1885. An American flag flies ... |
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