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Railroad Bridge

Date: 1907
Description: View over water towards a railroad bridge over a river. Trees and shrubs are along the banks of the river. There are buildings in the distance behind the b...
Manuscript

Earth Borer

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne...
Photograph

Irna Phillips Dictacting to Her Secretary

Date: 10 1940
Description: Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary.
Photograph

Irna Phillips and Rose Cooperman

Date: 
Description: Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing.
Photograph

Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Spingarn

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Davis Spingarn, a speech writer and special assistant to Cohen in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is an...
Photograph

The Things I Love

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a rutted, one lane country road is mounted with a printed border on a sheet of beige paper with a short essay printed alongside...
Photograph

The Lure of Devil's Lake

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a scene along the wooded shore of Devil's Lake is mounted on a piece of beige paper. The scene features an old section of a woo...
Photograph

The Lure of Devil's Lake

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a tree-framed scene along the shore of Devil's Lake is mounted on a piece of beige paper. A large bluff dominates the backgroun...
Print

Gridiron Club Sixty-Fifth Birthday Menu

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s...
Drawing

Drawing on a Letter to William Proxmire

Date: 03 06 1962
Description: A pencil drawing of a man holding his hands over his ears, standing next to his bed as though he's just leapt out of it. His expression is similar to that ...
Photograph

August Krueger Sitting at a Writing Table

Date: 1910
Description: August Krueger is sitting at a writing table writing on a note pad. A bottle of ink is sitting open on the table.
Photograph

Students in Iraq

Date: 1952
Description: Group of boys seated on the floor of a school with paper and pencils. The school was built with U.S. aid.
Photograph

Burl Cut by C. McCormick

Date: 1900
Description: Indoor photograph of a burl, cut by C. McCormick. There is a piece of paper with handwriting attached to the burl. A white card is folded behind the burl a...
Photograph

Burl Cut by McCormick Verticle Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Studio shot of a burl cut by McCormick verticle mower in Barron County, Wisconsin. There is a piece of paper with handwriting attached to the burl.
Photograph

Dead Viet Cong

Date: 1961
Description: Body of a Viet Cong sympathizer who had been painting anti-government propaganda banners to hang in a South Vietnamese border village. Some of the banners ...
Photograph

Payday for Army

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers gathered around a table where a woman, the "paymistress," sits with payroll sheets. The men are collecting their pay in the villa...
Photograph

Tattered Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside pages of a tattered bound document written in German, with handwritten notes filling in blanks on the left page, and handwriting near a stamp on the...
Photograph

Inside Pages of a Book

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Handwriting filling in the blanks on two inside pages of a bound document. The document is in German. On the bottom of the left page is a signature that re...
Photograph

Page of a Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside front cover and first page of a bound document written in German. The blanks are filled in with handwriting. On the bottom right is an official stam...
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell

Date: 1963
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell are seated together looking at a notebook or script.

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