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| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water." |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of miners and hillside mines in the Lead Region. Caption reads: "Sketch of the Lead Region." |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
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| Description: | Illustration of a little boy wearing a sailor outfit, holding a glass, and leaning against a fence. It was probably used for advertising Hires Root Beer, ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho... |
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| Description: | A drawing representing the first treaty between the Indians and the original 13 states. |
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| Description: | An illustration titled "The Battle of the Brule" based on an 1840's battle between the Ojibwe and Dakota Sioux over territory in the Ashland, Wisconsin are... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon during the presidential campaign depicting W.J. Bryan repainting a sign with the word "imperialism". |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon in which a small Harry Truman wearing an oversized shoe is requesting more power of a man representing Congress. |
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| Description: | Paul Bunyan walking with an axe over his shoulder and whistling. He is accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox who is carrying several people on his back. |
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| Description: | Drawing of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, hauling off Section 37. Bunyan has an axe over his shoulder and holds a pipe. |
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| Description: | Mess hall at Paul Bunyan's lumber camp. Men are seated at long tables as trains dispense soup, coffee, and tea, while salt is hauled in a wagon pulled by e... |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Chester A. Arthur, General John A. Logan, George Franklin Edmunds, and James G... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles. |
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| Description: | Directions for using the vacuum cap, a device intended to stimulate hair growth. A drawing at the top shows a man with the cap on his head with the cap tur... |
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| Description: | Black and white drawing of the great seal of the state of Wisconsin. A mariner and a miner stand on either side of a quartered shield topped by a badger an... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Schlitz advertisement copied from the "Milwaukee Press Club Annual." The image features an African man holding a Schlitz advertising sign. Underneath the i... |
| Date: | 02 1855 |
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| Description: | Engraved image from Harper's New Monthly Magazine showing people riding in a stagecoach pulled by two horses. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for Blatz Wiener beer featuring two well-dressed men and two women seated at a restaurant table drinking Blatz Beer. There is a potted pla... |
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