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James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball

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Description: Printed postcard of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. Text on reverse reads, "Snowball — window-washer, philosopher, affectionately named by students ...
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Duck Shooting on Lake Winnebago Near Fond du Lac, Wis.

Date: 1858
Description: Engraved print of four men and a dog in a boat on Lake Winnebago. Two of the men are in the center of the boat holding hunting rifles, while one man is sta...
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
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Capri Steak House Lunch Menu

Date: 1979
Description: Front cover and interior of a lunch menu from the Capri Steak House, with a red leatherette cover and gold tasselled cord.
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The Backstage Dinner Menu

Date: 1981
Description: Gate fold front covers and interior of dinner menu from The Backstage, with a line drawing of film actors Greta Garbo and John Gilbert on the front cover p...
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Marsh Shapiro's Nitty Gritty Souvenir Menu

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Description: Front cover and interior of a souvenir menu from the Nitty Gritty, a bar and restaurant that is "home of the famous Gritty Burger," with a marching line of...
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Amy's Cafe Delivery Menu

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Description: Front and back of two-sided delivery menu from Amy's Cafe, with drawings of a sandwich and a salad on the front.
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Frank Fargo Advertisement

Date: 1904
Description: An advertising card includes a photograph of a man in an open carriage holding the reins of a team of Holstein-Friesian cattle. Two well-dressed men are si...
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Call of the West

Date: 1851
Description: Engraved view of a wagon train heading into Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
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Company C, 27th Regiment Roster

Date: 1862
Description: A commemorative roster of the Wisconsin Volunteers of Company C, 27th Regiment.
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Lietenant Colonel Bertine Pinckney

Date: 1861
Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait, framed in a decorative matte, of Lieutenant Colonel Bertine Pinckney in uniform.
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Herd of Bison near Lake Jessie

Date: 11 22 1919
Description: Print on card depicting a herd of Bison near Lake Jessie. Written under the title is the date: "July 10th, 1853" and "Shyenne River County."
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Two Mollusks

Date: 1856
Description: An etching, labeled Conchology Plate III, depicts two large mollusks collected by members of the Perry expedition. They were described and named by physici...
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Ixos Haemorrhous

Date: 1856
Description: A bird, identified as Ixos haemorrhous, perches on a small branch. The hand-colored lithograph was produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock from William Heine's...
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Heterornis Sericea

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, from drawings created by William Heine, artist to Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan. The bird, ...
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Masked Laughingthrush

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the adult male Garrulax perspicillatus. It was created from William Heine's drawings of...
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Bristle Thighed Curlew

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared by Wm. E. Hitchcock from William Heine's drawings of a male specimen of Numenius tahiticus (now Numenius tahit...
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Phasianus Soemmeringii

Date: 1856
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of the male, left, and female copper pheasant, prepared by Wm. E. Hitchcock from drawings of specimens collected in Japan by Willia...
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Phasianus Versicolor

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the male, left, and female Japanese green pheasant, identified as Plate 1 - Ornithology. The i...

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