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The Famous Oshkosh Team

Date: 1887
Description: "The Famous Oshkosh Team of 1887". A composite portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, made up of baseball card images of each player, and a central image o...
Photograph

Matthias Stein Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,...
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Lincoln Inaugural Invitation

Date: 1865
Description: Invitation to the Presidential Inaugural Ball that celebrated the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, together with Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the Presid...
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F-12 Tractor Advertisement

Date: 05 10 1935
Description: Advertisement showing a farmer with a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cornfield.
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Flyer for IH Diesel and Gasoline Industrial Power

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising flyer for International Harvester diesel and gasoline industrial power. Features two photographs showing International TracTracTors (crawler tr...
Drawing

Drawings of Jimson Weed Flower

Date: 1827
Description: Drawings of Datura Stramonium, more commonly known by the names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkwe...
Drawing

Drawings of a Lilly

Date: 
Description: Drawings of a Lilly by Increase Lapham.
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A Complete New Line for Industrial Power Users

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester Industrial Power, featuring a color illustration of a man operating an International TracTracT...
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Russell Kerosene Tractor Brochure

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of brochure advertising Russell standardized kerosene tractors. The cover features several photographs of tractors being used on farms and to h...
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Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
Book or Pamphlet

John Deere Model D Repair Parts List

Date: 01 1926
Description: Front cover of the Number 29 repair parts list for the Model D John Deere tractor.
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Threshers Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Avery Yellow-Fellow and Yellow-Kid threshers. The cover features an illustration of men using threshers in a farm...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the 5-10 horsepower Avery tractor featuring an illustration of a man using the tractor on a farmstead. An inset illust...
Book or Pamphlet

Avery Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Avery tractors. A color illustration depicts a man using the tractor in a farm field. The caption at top reads: "The T...
Drawing

Lapham Shell Drawings

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawings of Unio plicatus and Unio radiatum (?) from the Scioto River, Cypraea tigris (Tiger cowry), and an Atlantic...
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Increase Lapham

Date: 
Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Increase Lapham.
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Hotel Superior Badger Room Menu

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Description: Front cover and Milk Bar flap from the menu at the Hotel Superior Badger Room, with the name of the hotel set against a circular backdrop and a three-quart...
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Lietenant Colonel Bertine Pinckney

Date: 1861
Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait, framed in a decorative matte, of Lieutenant Colonel Bertine Pinckney in uniform.
Drawing

"No Draft Press"

Date: 
Description: Cartoon drawing of a man standing in profile, sweating while working at a commercial pants pressing machine marked: "No Draft Press." He holds out a card t...
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Mining Operation

Date: 1839
Description: Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working.

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