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Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents Lunch Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed knife, fork, and spoon crossed o...
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H.M.S. Terror

Date: 1838
Description: Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to...
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Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents Dinner Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Dinner menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with a be-ribboned golden dinner bell suspended ...
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A Catalog of Plants & Shells

Date: 1836
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's A catalog of Plants & Shells, Found in the vicinity of Milwaukee on the West Side of Lake Michigan,
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A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin

Date: 1844
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin published by P.C. Hale of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Inaugurals, 1789-1881

Date: 1880
Description: Foldout chart illustrating all elected officials in the United States federal government from 1789 to 1881. The upper half of the chart shows the persons e...
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Political Parties, 1789-1880

Date: 1880
Description: Foldout chart illustrating the political parties of the United States, beginning with the colonial era. The explanation on the chart is as follows:

The s...

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Adriance, Platt & Company — Mowers & Reapers Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Cover of an Adriance, Platt & Company advertising catalog featuring mowers and reapers. The design is an arrangement of black text in various typefaces sur...
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Adriance and Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Catalog cover of Adriance, Platt & Co. features an illustration of a farmer standing in a field holding a scythe and wiping his brow. In the background men...
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Agricultural Advertising Front and Back Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Front and back cover of the January, 1897 issue of the Agricultural Advertising periodical. Slogan on front says: "Has been, is now and will continu...
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Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back sides of the Ann Arbor Co. brochure. The front cover includes an illustration of the factory. The inside is a spread with an illustration of...
Book or Pamphlet

Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company Annual Descriptive Catalog. Features an owl at the top with the words: "A Word to the Wise." At the bottom it s...
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Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l...
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Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1869
Description: Features an illustration of a buck in the foreground, and in the background a landscape, which includes on the right a man driving a horse-drawn agricultur...
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Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1878
Description: The cover features four illustrations in each corner of men operating mowers and reapers in the field with teams of two horses.
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Threshing Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of Aultman & Co's Annual Catalogue of threshing machinery. Features two putti pulling aside a curtain to reveal a landscape scene of farmers working ...
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C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co...
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C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Chromolithograph featuring a young girl wearing a red dress, hat and stockings. She is standing under a tree and gathering flowers in the folds of her dres...
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C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Back Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Chromolithograph of two young girls and a young boy holding the bottom of a banner featuring Miller's New Model Vibrating Thresher.
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The Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover. Features a chromolithograph of a woman holding flowers in her skirt. The woman is standing next to a buck who is wearing a ...

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