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Thomas Phillips

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Description: A woodcut image of Thomas Phillips, the general president of the Boot and Shoe Workers International Union, accompanying his biography.
Photograph

Mary Virginia McCormick

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Description: Studio portrait of Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941). Mary Virginia was the daughter of Chicago industrialist and inventor, Cyrus Hall McCormick. She is...
Photograph

John Bunny

Date: 1913
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Vitagraph star John Bunny wearing a cap and smiling brightly in this Stacy Studio portrait.
Print

Civil War Monument

Date: 1910
Description: An advertising circular for a book by Albert Bernhardt Faust featuring a picture of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, a Civil War monument designed by B...
Drawing

Melancton Smith

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Description: Pencil drawing of Melancton Smith in profile.
Book or Pamphlet

Massey-Harris Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Front cover of Massey-Harris farm machinery catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman wearing a long, white gown and a laurel leaf crown, holding a...
Book or Pamphlet

J.S. Woodhouse Co. Inc. Catalog Cover

Date: 1932
Description: Front cover featuring a man on a tractor pulling an agricultural implement in a field.
Photograph

Crawford Livingston, Jr.

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Crawford Livingston Jr., a railroad man who lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. Crawford Livingston purchased the land and built...
Photograph

David Duke Recruiting

Date: 1975
Description: Informal quarter-length portrait of David Duke. Caption on the reverse reads: "Grand Dragon of a Ku Klux Klan in Baton Rouge." He was in South Boston tryin...
Photograph

Flushing Tar Dye

Date: 07 29 1983
Description: A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea...

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