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| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a "Prairie Breaking Plow" of the 1840s. Includes the text: "Prairie Breaking Plow of 50 Years Ago." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Pages 16 and 17 of midwife Mary Gerrard's journal in which she recorded names and birth dates of infants she delivered. |
| Date: | 02 22 1899 |
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| Description: | The facade of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., on the back cover of the Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu. |
| Date: | 09 17 1897 |
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| Description: | Portion of a letter regarding the incorporation of the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for Moulton, Moran & Co. The logo shows North America and depicts Superior as the center of a hub with spokes going to Russia, to China and Japa... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Rand, McNally map of North America enhanced to show Superior as the center of a wheel. The image was used on the back of stationery from City Improvement C... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 09 03 1896 |
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| Description: | Memorial and Resolution adopted by the Thirtieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in St. Paul, Minnesota. In Memoriam of past Co... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Certificate appointing Lucius Fairchild as the director of the Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial Association. The certificate is decorated with oval portrai... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Receipt for plants purchased by Nina Dousman from Oak Grove Green Houses for gardens at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 08 28 1897 |
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| Description: | Receipt for trees and shrubs purchased from Commercial Nurseries of Council Bluffs, Iowa, by Nina Dousman for gardens at Villa Louis. |
| Date: | 04 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, as Governor of New York, to Anita McCormick Blaine. Roosevelt expresses regret at "missing a chance to see you" and her son... |
| Date: | 12 1898 |
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| Description: | Fire insurance map showing the grounds and buildings of the McCormick Reaper Works, a factory operated by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Letter from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Estes G. Rathbone, regarding the establishment of the Post Office at La Crosse and Nathan Myrick's appoint... |
| Date: | 09 23 1890 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter from Governor William Dempster Hoard to Henry C. Payne rejecting a $1000 donation Payne sent from Philip Armour. |
| Date: | 03 05 1891 |
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| Description: | Front cover and inside of menu for a dinner honoring U.S. Senator John C. Spooner when he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims, with an oval photograph ... |
| Date: | 11 26 1898 |
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| Description: | Menu for a "Banquet tendered by the Union Iron Works to the Delegation from the Badger State" given at the Palace Hotel, with an etching of the Battleship ... |
| Date: | 05 18 1890 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of the Hotel Barker menu, with a painting of a windmill in an embossed crescent moon shape. Printed in brown ink with reddish highligh... |
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