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William Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1892
Description: Cover of a Swedish advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a wizard(?) surrounded by male and femal...
Photograph

Portrait of Reverend Andrew L. Dahl

Date: 1910
Description: A studio portrait of the Reverend Andrew L. Dahl, minister in the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, from around 1910. Dahl was born in Valdres, Norway...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Print

Santa Claus with Candy Cane

Date: 1962
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b...
Photograph

St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "High winds played havoc with the cross on St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, of Kiel was called in to rectify the 'leaning cross.'"
Photograph

St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, was asked to take some photos from the top of the steeple. This is the result obtained when he held a motorized camera with a 20m...
Photograph

Infirmed Man in Bed

Date: 01 09 1913
Description: A man is lying in bed, covered to his chin in bedding and propped up by pillows. On the right side of the bed is a large bible and a rosary. The room is ri...
Photograph

Brooks McCormick with Rev. Leon Sullivan

Date: 03 1979
Description: Brooks McCormick standing with Rev. Leon Sullivan. Both men wear International Harvester nametags, and they are holding a plaque which reads, in part: "Dis...
Photograph

James Jesse Strang

Date: 1855
Description: Three-quarter length sitting portrait of James Strang.
Photograph

Rev. Edward Mathews

Date: 1865
Description: Portrait of Reverend Edward Mathews standing in front of a "Moral Map of the United States." He is holding a long, wooden pointer and is gesturing towards ...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson Preaching

Date: 01 14 1974
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson preaching at Shiloh Baptist Church. Members of the congregation are sitting behind him. Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy is sitting o...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson Preaching

Date: 01 14 1974
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson preaching at a pulpit with microphones at Shiloh Baptist Church. Members of the congregation, and singers in robes can be seen b...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson gesturing while sitting at his desk in the PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) headquarters. In the background, on the wall, ...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his le...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. He is wearing a PUSH button on his lea...
Photograph

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Date: 1975
Description: The Reverend Jesse Jackson addressing an Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) rally in its headquarters. On the back wall is a large portrait o...

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