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Photograph

IH Dealer Takes Scrap Drive Pledge

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana...
Manuscript

Bennett Diary Pages

Date: 05 1863
Description: Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War.
Postcard

Cliffs of Dover Postcard

Date: 1908
Description: Front and back of a postcard sent from Agnes to William (Bill) Quinney. The front features a print of the Cliffs of Dover in pastel tones while, on the ba...
Postcard

Detroit Skyline Postcard

Date: 1930
Description: The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Back of a cowboy postcard sent by Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family. A Curt Teich Art Colortone published by Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denv...
Photograph

National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 09 1951
Description: Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti...
Poster

Gettysburg Address

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Description: The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed.
Poster

Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Description: A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission...
Poster

Great Event of the Age! Negro Emancipation Proclaimed!

Date: 1863
Description: Poster with decorative border and text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
Manuscript

Introductory Page of the Kentucky Papers

Date: 10 08 1862
Description: An introduction to the Kentucky Papers, written by Spencer Records, which begins, "I have written the following narrative partly for my own satisfaction an...
Photograph

Druggist Office

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Description: A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera.
Drawing

Speech by Hon. Ithamar C. Sloan of Wisconsin

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Description: Drawing on paper with lacy edging to commemorate a speech made by the Honorable Ithamar C. Sloan in the House of Representatives, January 23, 1865 on the r...
Manuscript

Emilie Quiner Diary Page

Date: 07 08 1863
Description: Diary entries for July 7 and 8, 1863 written by Emilie Quiner while caring for Union soldiers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Photograph

Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...
Photograph

Man and Woman at Desk

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Description: A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
Photograph

The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword

Date: 1893
Description: Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa...
Print

Merry Christmas to a Fine Employer

Date: 1948
Description: Holiday card from an employee to their employer. On a white sheet of paper with holly on it, with a green background. The text reads: "Merry Christmas to a...
Manuscript

Fur Trade Engagement in French

Date: 03 14 1812
Description: A fur trade engagement for Charles St. Antoine dit Vacher, written in French.
Manuscript

Rosa Parks Letter

Date: 02 25 1956
Description: A typed letter written to Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School from Rosa L. Parks.

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