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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d... |
| Date: | 06 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by what was then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. Features an illustration of the reape... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Handbill containing directions for putting together and operating McCormick's reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Headline over illustration of t... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is dri... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Handbill or broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Reaping and Mowing Machine, manufactured by C.H. McCormick and Co. Includes an illustration of the ma... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Directions for putting together and operating McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Features a woodcut illustration with labeled parts. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Handbill or broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Features a small illustration of the machine followed by warnings to other manufactu... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Handbill or Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is driving the horses, anothe... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Holiday card. In the center are 4 choir girls singing, holding hymnals, and one girl playing the violin. They are all wearing white robes. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 05 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of a menu (in German) for a breakfast given by the city of Heidelberg to honor American journalists, with a scene of the Heidelberg Ca... |
| Date: | 12 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra... |
| Date: | 06 30 1999 |
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| Description: | Menu for a reception at L'Etoile Restaurant for the School of Organic Farming and Cooking at Taliesin, with the school logo and a background photograph of ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Troy Laundry Machinery Company, with a classical figure of a man wearing a work apron and caligae, holding in his right hand a hammer, an... |
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