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| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Color drawing of beavers working on and living at their dams. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Image of a runaway slave with stick and satchel. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a woman reprimanding a young woman, while a young man looks in at a window in the background. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A young woman looks out her arched window with a bird cage hanging outdoors. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily. |
| Date: | 04 13 1861 |
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| Description: | Etching from a photograph of Mrs. General Gaines. |
| Date: | 04 1849 |
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| Description: | Engraving with color of two women modeling high fashion dresses. |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 07 22 1905 |
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| Description: | A cartoon titled "The First Mountain To Be Removed" showing Uncle Sam and Theodore Roosevelt looking at a mountain shaped like a skeleton wearing a mask an... |
| Date: | 03 04 1905 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon titled "The Great American Durbar", showing a parade of political characters featuring Theodore Roosevelt perched atop an elephant symb... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the lake steamer, Michigan with another vessel in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the steamboat Western World. Several people stand on the deck. An American flag and flags reading Detroit, Michigan Central, Buffalo, N.Y... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Hardware catalog page showing wooden wash tubs and water pails. |
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