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: | 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... |
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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: | 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... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental. |
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 ... |
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Description: | Men and cattle, including one lineback and sheep are in a barnyard. A man and a child are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle outside of the barnyard fence. T... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
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Description: | A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper. |
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Description: | Family and mailbox in front of frame house with small cross design on second story windows with wagons and farm implements in front of frame carriage house... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of a family standing near a small and neat rural frame house. The women are wearing hats. One man is leaning against the house with ... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Family in yard with man on left on rig, man on right side with reaper and other farm implements. Four women are sitting in chairs in the center, and the wo... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova... |
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