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Book or Pamphlet

Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
Photograph

Construction of Retaining Wall

Date: 04 05 1919
Description: Workers building a retaining wall to "P. tipple" of the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the W...
Photograph

Steam Shovel Digging Borrow Pit

Date: 03 01 1919
Description: Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ...
Photograph

German Farmers Pull Log with McCormick D-435 Tractor

Date: 1960
Description: German farmers pulling a wooden log with a McCormick D-435 tractor against a mountainous backdrop in Alpine country.
Photograph

McCormick No. 51 Hillside Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1950
Description: Two men harvesting wheat with an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and a No. 51 hillside harvester-thresher (combine). Mountains are in the far b...
Photograph

Mt. Simon Over the Chippewa

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Description: Elevated view of the "mount" and the wide river before it and behind it. Houses and smokestacks can be seen in the far distance.
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.
Map or Atlas

Map of State of Idaho

Date: 1905
Description: Map of state of Idaho. Department of Interior General Land Office.
Photograph

Rib Mountain

Date: 1930
Description: A view looking west at Rib Mountain across the Wisconsin River from the outskirts of Wausau.
Photograph

Rib Mountain

Date: 1950
Description: A view from Rib Mountain looking southeast toward Rothschild and the Wisconsin River. The sign on the road in the foreground reads: "Dangerous Road, Drive ...
Poster

Battle of Mission Ridge Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the Civil War battle of Mission Ridge. Features an inset with a small ...
Photograph

On Spokane River

Date: 1910
Description: The original caption reads: "Spokane river, from a short distance below its head in Coeur d'Alene lake to its confluence with the Columbia, flows through t...
Photograph

View of Mountains

Date: 1910
Description: A distant view of the Bartlett and Kearsarge Mountains. A field and trees are in the foreground, and a white house is nestled in the forest further up the ...
Photograph

Big Horn Mountains

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Description: View from hill of the Big Horn Mountains near Buffalo.
Photograph

Cars on Dirt Road to Town

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Description: Elevated view of two cars on a dirt road heading downhill. A town is in the valley below, and mountains are in the distance.
Photograph

Elevated View of Green River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of the city as seen from Castle Rock.
Photograph

Fort Union

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Description: An illustrated view of Fort Union (on the North Dakota-Montana boundary), with an Indian encampment.
Photograph

Hotel Claremont

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view from a nearby rooftop of Hotel Claremont and Tremont Square with hills in the background. Caption reads: "Hotel Claremont and Tremont Square....
Photograph

Stagecoach

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Description: View toward people on a stagecoach pulled by six horses. Caption reads: "Stage from Austin to Burns, Crossing Dixie Mountains."
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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