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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Front cover of Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways, with an image of a man and a woman paddling a rowboat on a river. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover of Adriance, Platt & Co. features an illustration of a farmer standing in a field holding a scythe and wiping his brow. In the background men... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph featuring a view through a stone arch of two men in a field with a Sweepstakes threshing machine. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of catalog for harvesting machines. Front contains illustration of a torn hole with the eye of a buck looking through the hole. Superi... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover of calendar, with the text: "Hail Columbia, Happy Land!" Features a bird's-eye illustration of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fa... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front cover of Buckeye harvesting machinery catalog, featuring a group of men and horses resting under the shade of a tree. In the background is a field wi... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Calendar front, with the month of January, 1893. At the top it reads: "1893 calendar presented to the farmers of the world with the compliments of Aultman,... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover features an illustration of two children, a boy and a girl, sitting on a shoreline with a bowl of bubbles. The boy is holding up a dripping b... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with the title: "The Three Greatest Empires," features an illustration of an Empire Drill in the foreground, and in the background a train tr... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a catalog for harvesting machines. The cover features a color illustration of shocks of hay in a field surrounded by sun rays in th... |
| Date: | 02 22 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover, front cover, and menu page for the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County annual banquet. The back page includes an illustration of a monument ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1902 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the annual banquet of the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County. On the cover is an oval tipped-in portrait of club president... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring an illustration of a man and a woman relaxing on a porch. In the background on the right a team of horses are harnessed to a Milwauke... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a Light Running Plano in a field with two horses. Around the border are illustrations of types of le... |
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