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| Date: | 1864 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A map and profile map of the railroad line from Omaha to San Francisco. |
| Date: | 1816 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Page 11 of a speech written by Increase Lapham on embryonic development in plants. There are drawings at the top of the page. |
| Date: | 11 21 1847 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the burning of the steamer Phoenix on Lake Michigan, 17 miles from Sheboygan. Survivors are floating on debris in the water, and a ... |
| Date: | 03 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving after a drawing of the steamer Walk-in-the-Water, the first steamboat to sail the Great Lakes. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large farm binding operation. Men are working in a field in the left foreground. Farm buildings and a farmhouse are across the road. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Shullsburg. There is a numbered key on the left that reads, at top: "Explanation. Nos. Denote present Site." Streets are named on the map and ma... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Col. A.C. Litchfield of the 7th Michigan Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Shaded drawings with size dimensions for plans of "Tents used in Civil War." Upper left, "18. ft diam 'SIBLEY' TENT." Upper right, "18. ft diam HASK... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Shaded drawings with size dimensions for plans of "Tents used in Civil War. U.S. Army Regulation Tents." Upper left, "18. ft diam, Gilbert Anderson Hub... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the second story of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original "Section-through-Centre-of-House-from-West-to-East" drawing of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Original drawing of the basement of the McCormick residence, 675 Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois. Construction started after the Chicago fire in 1874, and w... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Waist-up pen and ink drawing of Chief Oshkosh. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. He wears a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded neckpouch and a blanket w... |
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