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Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Print

Charles W. Short, Botanist

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Description: Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ...
Book or Pamphlet

Creeping Grip Tractors

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Bullock Tractor Company. A photograph of a man using the tractor in a farm field is accompanied by the text: "Wor...
Print

Rex Stout's 75th Birthday Party Menu

Date: 12 01 1961
Description: Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1891
Description: Back cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of children riding on a harvesting machine pulled by three boys. The caption reads: "It is as simple a...
Photograph

B.B. King

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Description: Musician B.B. King playing his guitar "Lucille" in concert.
Photograph

Ray Charles

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Description: Ray Charles singing and playing piano during a performance.
Photograph

James G. Albright

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of James G. Albright. Caption reads: "James G. Albright, Milwaukee. Director and one of the organizers of the Wisconsin Archeologic...

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