Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking southwest toward the county courthouse under construction in the public square west of St. John's Cathedral. |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for IHC hay presses featuring an illustration of a landscape of a valley with farms and fields. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators showing a woman with her hand on a gate and a pail over he... |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a... |
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... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The third Wisconsin Capitol (the second in Madison) as it appeared shortly after the construction was completed. |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15). "In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Buffalo wounded by spear or arrow in the snow (Plate 16). "The reader has here, a striking illustration of the deadly effects of the Indian's arrow, and ... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20). "The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24). "The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,... |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
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Description: | "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Promotional brochure for the Wisconsin Dells (then known as Kilbourn) issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The railroad illustrated many of... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Luggage tag from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. The hotel was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The luggage tag is part of an album of images of the hot... |
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