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Fisher Ames

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Description: Engraved lithographic waist-up portrait of Fisher Ames posed sitting in a chair holding a book. He was a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Mass...
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Fisher Ames

Date: 1864
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Fisher Ames, a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788, then a membe...
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Farm in Valley

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: View down hill towards farm buildings in a valley. Hill and mountains are in the distance.
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Floor Plan for Pan-Pacific Exposition

Date: 1914
Description: Floor plan layout for the Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Includes the placement of various kinds of agricultural machinery.
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Filling Haymow

Date: 08 22 1928
Description: View towards men using a thresher to fill a haymow in a barn. A tractor is belt-driving the thresher.
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John Peter Altgeld

Date: 1893
Description: Engraved lithographic quarter-length portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progres...
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Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f...
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Milo J. Althouse

Date: 1877
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Milo J. Althouse, engineer and businessmen. Althouse moved to Waupun as a young man and designed the "Waupun pump" for we...
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Baldanzi Kills Trade Union History

Date: 1952
Description: Satirical cartoon depicting an arm holding a bloodied knife over a book. The open book is titled Trade Union History and has blood seeping from a wound. Th...
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George Baldanzi

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Description: Line-drawn caricature profile of TWUA founding executive vice president George Baldanzi.
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General James Buntin Ray

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Description: Waist-up profile portrait of Gen. James Ray of Kentucky.
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Captain Augustus Quarles

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Captain Augustus Quarles of Southport (now Kenosha) who served in an Illinois Regiment during the Mexican War.
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Rev. H. Gilliland, D. D.

Date: 1878
Description: Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University.
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6 Day Bike Race - 1878

Date: 1878
Description: Illustration of a crowd watching bicyclists on penny-farthings, who are racing around a track inside a tent. Below illustration is the text "From the Priva...
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Men's Quarters, Garage, and Stable

Date: 1924
Description: Architectural drawing of what became known as The Cow Palace at Forest Lodge.
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Sketch of Forest Lodge Ice House

Date: 1940
Description: Pencil sketch showing the Forest Lodge log icehouse among tall trees.
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Sketch of Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1939
Description: Pencil sketch of the Forest Lodge boathouse on Lake Namakagon. Sketch is signed "Lundir '39".
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Central Pacific Railroad Map

Date: 1867
Description: A map and profile map of the railroad line from Omaha to San Francisco.
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Pyramide de Cholula

Date: 1816
Description: The four-stepped, low-rising Pyramid of Cholula, covered in sparse vegetation, stands in a flat valley, surrounded by distant mountains. A stairway leads u...
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Disk Harrow Disassembled for Shipping

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Description: Disk Harrow disassembled for shipping, with parts and gangs displayed on the floor and also against a backdrop.

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