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| Date: | 08 02 1879 |
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| Description: | A drawing of Thomas Edison seated at a desk working on an experiment. Caption at bottom reads: "Edison In His Workshop." |
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| Description: | An exhibit of petrified wood sections and other objects on tables and display cases in the Zerk Museum. Paintings, photographs, jewelry and other objects a... |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of inventor Oscar Zerk with his hand on his chin. |
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| Description: | Inventor Oscar Zerk is leaning over his drafting table as he works on a design. |
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| Description: | Oscar Zerk is sitting at his desk in his office holding a Zerk grease gun in his hand. There is a taxidermied owl on the cabinet on the right, and a large ... |
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| Description: | Oscar Zerk is sitting at a desk holding a paper in his hand. The room is decorated with two taxidermied birds, and a large picture window is behind the des... |
| Date: | 02 18 1955 |
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| Description: | A man posing indoors with a drawn bow. He has a quiver with additional arrows affixed to his arm. Caption reads: "ACCLAIMED BY ARCHERS is this arm q... |
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| Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Standing, three-quarter length portrait of Edward J. Carlier (1893-1954) posing with an elbow resting on tires and a pencil and papers in his hands. Establ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1927 |
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| Description: | Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Air-Lec power door operators. The doors are in an open position, view from indoors looking out towards t... |
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| Description: | Detail of "Great American Inventors," showing Cyrus Hall McCormick. Copy of engraving for Harper's. |
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| Description: | "Great American Inventors," copy of engraving for Harper's. |
| Date: | 03 08 1913 |
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| Description: | Inventors copyright drawing. Dated March 4, 1913. |
| Date: | 01 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, 320 North 3rd Street, between East Johnson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Louis Schoelkopf invented and manufactured the... |
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| Description: | Illustration used for a book written about the history of the typewriter. Image includes Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewri... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Illustration on cover of a book written about the history of the typewriter covering 1873-1923. |
| Date: | 10 18 1879 |
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| Description: | Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene... |
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| Description: | View from street of two men standing just inside the open doorway of the storefront. Trunks are displayed on pallets set up on the wooden sidewalk. Dexter ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I... |
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