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Aerial View of River View Cannery

Date: 09 10 1947
Description: Aerial view of the River View Cannery.
Photograph

Deer Creek

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a farmer using a horse-drawn plow in a field near Deer Creek in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Tall rock formation can be seen on the edge of t...
Photograph

Wisconsin Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a rolling rural landscape, most likely in Sauk County. In the far distance are houses and farm buildings, a church and a larger building, center ...
Photograph

Automatic Self-Rake Reaper

Date: 1900
Description: A man leads two horses pulling a McCormick automatic self-rake reaper through a field while another man follows behind. In the background is a river or pon...
Photograph

Three Men with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men use a McCormick grain binder in a field overlooking a body of water, probably the Saint John River, in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Men an...
Photograph

View of the Countryside

Date: 
Description: Bundles of a harvested grain stand in a field beyond a body of water.
Map or Atlas

Present Use of Land, Wisconsin

Date: 1935
Description: This map shows in different colors virgin timberland, second growth timber, pasture belt, crop-pasture belt, intensive crop-pasture belt, intensive pasture...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing the locations of cities and towns, counties, railway lines, the steamship lines in Lake Superior and lake Michigan....
Book or Pamphlet

D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Back cover of catalog with an illustration of two men using horse-drawn agricultural machinery in fields, while a group of Native American Indians look on....
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1888
Description: Front and back cover of catalog, featuring on the front an illustration of birds, mice, and flying insects near a wheat field. The back cover reads: "Manuf...
Photograph

Elevated View of a Banana Plantation

Date: 1902
Description: Elevated view of a banana plantation located along a river in Costa Rica.
Photograph

Landscape with Horse-Drawn Carriage near River

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men standing near a horse-drawn carriage on the shoreline of a river. On the other side of the river is a high stone wall with grass...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Barley on the Great Lakes

Date: 1923
Description: This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the movement of barley on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State Barge Cana...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Corn on the Great Lakes

Date: 1923
Description: This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the movement of corn on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State Barge Canal ...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Flaxseed on the Great Lakes

Date: 1923
Description: This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the easterly movement of flaxseed on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Grain on the Great Lakes

Date: 1923
Description: This map includes an explanation that reads: "This chart shows the movement of grain on the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and New York State Barge Canal...
Photograph

Grignon Mansion

Date: 1947
Description: View from hill looking down across fields at the property of Charles Grignon. Grignon Mansion in the background among trees, and beyond is the Fox River. O...
Map or Atlas

A New and Accurate Map of Virginia Wherein Most of the Counties are Laid Down from Actual Surveys: With a Concise Account of the Number of Inhabitants, the Trade, Soil, and Produce of that Province

Date: 1770
Description: The south west sheet of a four sheet map of Virginia, showing the counties, mountains, rivers, court houses, a few cities, and mills. A few Plantations ar...
Map or Atlas

Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula

Date: 1685
Description: A detailed map of the western hemisphere showing cities, settlements, Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Great Lakes, and California as an...

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