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Magazine or Periodical

IH Refrigeration Takes Broad New Strides

Date: 01 1947
Description: Cover of International Harvester World magazine showing a woman standing next to an International Harvester freezer. International Harvester also ma...
Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Manuscript

Kitchen and Bathroom Scenes

Date: 01 1913
Description: Page from manuscript keepsake scrapbook containing an image of a kitchen stove and of a toilet. Caption below the kitchen stove reads: "Some of the machine...
Manuscript

Christmas Day

Date: 1917
Description: A scrapbook page containing three photographs of John A. Commons (presumably) in his World War I uniform, standing with another man with a Christmas tree, ...
Photograph

Flour and Feed Store

Date: 1899
Description: The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701...
Magazine or Periodical

Arrival of a Federal Column at a Planter's House in Dixie

Date: 04 04 1863
Description: Illustration depicting a large group of people gathered in the yard of a house. Three woman stand on the porch steps, and men, women and children are gathe...
Drawing

A Battle as Seen by the Reserve

Date: 12 17 1862
Description: Illustration depicting a battle. In the foreground injured soldiers are gathered on and around the porch and yard of a house. In the background are columns...
Document

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
Manuscript

Nathan Myrick's Account Book

Date: 1841
Description: Page from Nathan Myrick's account book showing transactions with Native Americans.
Document

Central Roofing & Supply Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Central Roofing & Supply Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Roofing Jobbers and Contractors," with a three-quarter view of a house with a ...
Document

M. Quinn Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of M. Quinn, "Dealer in Pine Lands," with two men in front of a tent at a campsite, one of whom is cooking over a campfire and the other is sitt...
Manuscript

The Death Of A Mansion

Date: 03 1952
Description: An invitation to “A Black Masque and Ball Macabre at the DOOMED McCORMICK MANSION.” The mansion was the former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormi...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Some Bare Spots

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with examples of yards in need of gardens at the Vitale and Annie Gambino homes, and a spot...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
Manuscript

Tansy Camp Fire Girls Album: Camp 1930

Date: 1930
Description: Page from the Tansy Camp Fire Girls album kept by Neighborhood House, with groups of girls posing at the end of a pier, in front of tents, on the remains o...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: 1st and 2nd Residents

Date: 1926
Description: First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: Cooking and Making Beds

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images of T.T. Club members. On image shows girls using a hand beater and stirring a pot on the ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: A Swell Time

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two T.T. Club images, one of two girls tending to another girl who is in bed ("and a tray for Katie"...

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