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Robert Dale Owen

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Description: Illustration of Robert Dale Owen seated at a table.
Manuscript

Co-operative Collars and Cuffs

Date: 1887
Description: Advertisement for K. of L. Brand Co-operative Collars and Cuffs showing illustrations of collars. It includes the statement "The Only Union Made Collars".
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra...
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Military Ball Invitation

Date: 04 29 1882
Description: Printed invitation to the 2nd annual military ball of the Light Horse Squadron of Milwaukee. The invitation is printed in blue and gold and features illust...
Photograph

Harry Elsworth Cole

Date: 1906
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Harry Elsworth Cole (1861-1928), founder and first president of the Sauk County Historical Society and president of the S...
Print

Governor Lewis

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of James T. Lewis. His signature appears below the image.
Print

DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife

Date: 1946
Description: Cover of United States Department of the Interior Circular 11 entitled DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife by Clarence Cottam and Elmer Higgins. Th...
Photograph

15th Wisconsin Monument at Chickamauga

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Description: Monument for the 15th Wisconsin Infantry at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
Photograph

Young Richard Ely

Date: 12 1895
Description: Waist-up portrait of Richard Ely wearing pince nez, titled: "The Arena, Dec. 1895."
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1868
Description: Features an illustration of a man using a mower with a team of two horses. Caption below reads: "Here a stump is to be passed, as you now discover, And a l...
Book or Pamphlet

J.I. Case & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1872
Description: Catalog cover reads: "J.I. Case, Manufacturers of Improved Threshing Machines, Steam Engines, Horse Powers &c." Features illustrations of vegetables, frui...
Book or Pamphlet

"Cultivate with Kovar" Catalog Cover

Date: 1926
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man driving a tractor and pulling a spring tooth digger in a field. The slogan: "Cultivate with Kovar" is over...
Book or Pamphlet

Marsh Harvester and Twine Binder Advertisement

Date: 1881
Description: Back page of a four-page brochure. Features an illustration of a man using a horse-drawn harvester in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1870
Description: Front cover of catalog with a green cover for Wood's harvesting machines. Features an illustration of, at the top, a view of a town, flanked by two women, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Wyandotte Agricultural Works

Date: 1871
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring an illustration of a man using a team of horses to use the Improved Iron Clad Mower in a field.
Photograph

Portrait of Governor Edward Salomon

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Description: Engraved quarter-length vignette portrait of Wisconsin's 8th governor Edward Salomon in semi-profile. He is wearing a polka-dot tie. Below the portrait is ...
Manuscript

Letter from Charlotte Perkins Stetson To Dr. Mitchell

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Description: The final page of a letter written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson to Dr. Weir Mitchell.
Book or Pamphlet

County Law Reform Pamphlet

Date: 1834
Description: The cover of the "Address, Resolutions, and Proceedings of the County Law Reform and Workingmen's Conventions...".
Photograph

Jimmy Cliff

Date: 
Description: Jimmy Cliff jumping up during a performance at the Orpheum Theater.
Photograph

Manual Training Images

Date: 1904
Description: A page from the book "What Hampton Graduates Are Doing" which includes two photographs. At the top center is an oval-framed portrait of Richard T. Coles. T...

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