Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average. |
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Description: | Chromolithograph advertisement for Wisner's Tiger Sulky Hay Rake, featuring a color illustration of a woman riding a hay dump rake pulled by a tiger. They ... |
Date: | 03 15 1946 |
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Description: | Teenage girl with three young men, one in uniform, at a soda fountain. The boys are admiring her necklace and bracelet. |
Date: | 04 18 1935 |
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Description: | Seven girls performing a modern dance on stage. |
Date: | 03 18 1935 |
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Description: | Group portrait of eleven male East High School basketball players in uniform, and a coach and two assistants. |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma... |
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Description: | Three men stand in the snow in front of the Wisconsin & Northern Railroad engine #2 (the second locomotive with this number) in the woods on the Menominee ... |
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Description: | A view of the Soo Line Depot and railroad tracks running through the town at Armstrong Creek. A man, child, and a dog are walking on the railroad tracks. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Men and boys participate in the Western Rifle Association Tournament. Many of the participants are sitting under umbrellas and holding their guns. Severa... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Participants at the Western Rifle Association Tournament in Wapello, Iowa. Many of the men are holding guns. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the ba... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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