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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of prominent Winnebago man Spoon-de-Kaury, or Spoon Decorah. He is seated, holding a walking cane. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three ships at dock, the "Superior," the "Sandusky," and the "Shawnee," all built in Gibralter, Michigan. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Haertel Brewery which later became the Eulberg Brewery. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Crossing a river on the way to Vermillion Lake in the early 1880's, before the building of any railroads in that part of the country. The teams were part o... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) men. One of them may be Yellow Thunder. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Christmas issue of "St. Nicholas" magazine, the most studied children's periodical of the 19th century, which was published by Mary Mapes Dodge. This cover... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Horace Palmer with moustache and suit. A portion of his hair appears to be drawn onto the photograph. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the First Public Library. It was located over Pondee Grocery Store on College Avenue. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not. |
| Date: | 09 01 1884 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company. |
| 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: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the arrival in a train station of the Maine and New Hampshire delegations to the National Republican Convention. |
| Date: | 06 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Honorary George F. Hoar addressing a huge crowd of delegates at the National Republican Convention. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated exterior view of T.G. Mandt Wagons & Carriages. Several of the men are standing near or leaning on one of the many carriages displayed ar... |
| Date: | 08 27 1889 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a group of women from Stockholm on their first American Tour. |
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