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To Move Monument Five Miles

Date: 1917
Description: View of the Ames monument, built to memorialize Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames Jr., who were instrumental in completing the Union Pacific portion of the transc...
Drawing

Farm in Valley

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View down hill towards farm buildings in a valley. Hill and mountains are in the distance.
Photograph

View of Countryside

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View across overgrown field towards a cornfield behind a fence, with mountains in the far background.
Photograph

The Truck That Crossed the Sahara?

Date: 07 16 1928
Description: View of a truck on a road. Mountains are in the background.
Photograph

Scout II in River

Date: 1978
Description: View from shoreline of Scout II being driven across a river. Trees, hills and a mountain are in the background. The red Scout II has a roof rack and white...
Photograph

Scout II in River

Date: 1978
Description: View from shoreline of Scout II being driven across a river. Trees, hills and a mountain are in the background. The red Scout II has a roof rack and white ...
Photograph

Scout II XLC in Mountains

Date: 1978
Description: Passenger side view of a white Scout II XLC with red and blue detailing on the side. The Scout is being driven up a snowy hill in the mountains. A woman is...
Photograph

Scout II XLC in Mountains

Date: 1978
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of passenger side of white Scout II XLC. The Scout is being driven on a snowy path in the mountains. A man appears to be drivi...
Photograph

International Aristocrat Scout

Date: 05 16 1969
Description: International Harvester Aristocrat Scout. Right-front view. Original caption reads, "Photograph W-6098-- Low profile wide oval tires are featured on the al...
Photograph

Two International Scouts Entering Closed Road

Date: 12 29 1975
Description: Two International Scouts entering a closed road. The roads appear to be unplowed and on a mountain. Sign reads, "Road Closed no winter maintenance." Origin...
Photograph

Group Portrait of People at Stanley McCormick School

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men, women and children posing on the steps of a building at the school. A mountain is in the background.
Photograph

Building at Stanley McCormick School

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Description: View of a building at the school. A mountain is in the background.
Manuscript

Page 1 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Stanley Hall and the Green Mountains — looking north from School Building." There is a...
Photograph

Mill Building — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Three men are working on the top of the mill building. There is no roof, and the logs are not filled in or chinked. The road curves from the left in the ba...
Photograph

Biological Laboratory at Signy Island

Date: 1965
Description: Elevated view of the Biological Laboratory in Antarctica.
Postcard

Blue Ridge Mountains

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Description: Elevated view over roofs of farm buildings toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. Handwritten at bottom: "Blue Ridge Mts."
Photograph

Old Barn at Walnut Grove

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Description: Photograph from album with the caption: "Old Barn." The view is down a hill towards the barn which has a fenced enclosure. A horse-drawn buggy is near the ...
Postcard

Fields and Mountains at Walnut Grove

Date: 07 14 1909
Description: View looking down on fenced fields, with some harvested bundles of what may be hay. There are two reapers parked near the fence. In the distance are mounta...
Drawing

Central Pacific Railroad Map

Date: 1867
Description: A map and profile map of the railroad line from Omaha to San Francisco.
Drawing

Pyramide de Cholula

Date: 1816
Description: The four-stepped, low-rising Pyramid of Cholula, covered in sparse vegetation, stands in a flat valley, surrounded by distant mountains. A stairway leads u...

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