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Drawing

Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains

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Description: "Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains to the Army at Springfield, MO." Men on horseback are riding along a trail carrying supplies.
Photograph

Harvesting Grain by Hand in Mexico

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Several people harvest grain by hand, while two men on horses look on. All the men wear sombreros; the men on horses wear suits, while the harvesters wear...
Photograph

Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
Photograph

Cattle in Pasture

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Description: Cattle graze in a pasture with mountains in the background.
Photograph

Tschirren Family Having Lunch in the Field

Date: 1958
Description: Men, women, and children of the Tschirren family having lunch on a wagon in their field. The Tschirrens had a farm in Niedermuhlern, Switzerland.
Print

Scout V-8 Advertising Booklet

Date: 1967
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the International Harvester Scout V-8 truck. Color photograph shows two Scout vehicles with men driving through snow i...
Photograph

Steele's Tavern, Virginia

Date: 1900
Description: Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h...
Photograph

Experimental Harvester-Thresher

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Description: Side view of a man using an experimental No.127 SP harvester-thresher (combine) in a field. Mountains are in the far background. The original caption read...
Photograph

J.C. Smuts Homestead in South Africa

Date: 01 21 1924
Description: View from distance of the childhood homestead of General Jan Christian Smuts in Klipfontein, South Africa. Hills or mountains are in the background.
Drawing

Mrs. Fowe's Ranch

Date: 1902
Description: A drawing depicting Mrs. Fowe's Ranch. With mountains in the distance, the ranch consists of corrals for horses and cattle, and a modest-sized house.
Poster

CIE Tours International Travel Poster: Tour Connemara

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Connemara, Ireland, and CIE Tours International travel company. Featuring the artist Costelloe, the poster depicts a bus t...
Poster

British Railways Travel Poster: Sussex

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting the British Railways through an artist's depiction of the countryside of Sussex, featuring a small church surrounded by a ...
Poster

London Midland and Scottish Railway Travel Poster: Connemara

Date: 1926
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, promoting travel to "Ireland This Year" and visiting Connemara....
Photograph

Eaton's Dude Ranch

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Description: Elevated view from hill of Eaton's Dude Ranch in a fertile valley near Sundance. The ranch has many buildings, and fencing with horses inside.
Photograph

Whiteface Mountain Highway Toll Station

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Description: View of the Whiteface Mountain Highway Toll Station, and three cars parked nearby.
Photograph

Elevated View of Mining Company

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ...
Photograph

Elevated View of a Settled Valley

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Description: Elevated view of homes in a valley. In the foreground is a mining-car bridge, numerous buildings, and factory smokestacks. Caption reads: "Cambria, WYO."
Photograph

Elevated View of Mining Community

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of a mining community, including numerous houses, mining structures, and large mounds of gravel material.
Photograph

Elevated View of Greenback Mining Company

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Description: Elevated view of Greenback Mining Company, located in a valley and surrounded by pine trees. There are mining buildings, a large house, and a man driving a...
Photograph

Elevated View of Town on the Delaware River

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Description: Elevated view of country town showing large. There are wooden buildings alongside the Delaware River which curves through fields and patches of woods in th...

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