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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Yellow thunder, a Winnebago Chief. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a scientist in his lab gazing at a test tube, with a caption in German that translates to "Eureka! I have found it!". |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joseph H. Osborn, a leader in cooperative and Grange movements. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Chester A. Arthur, General John A. Logan, George Franklin Edmunds, and James G... |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Robert T. Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, General Joseph Roswell Hawley, ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Emma Seipp, third from left in second row, poses with eight other young women against a carved studio prop and painted backdrop. Two of the other women, Em... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an engraved image showing an elevated view of the Newhall House fire. A large crowd is gathered in the foreground observing the fire and fire... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to... |
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