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Cyrus McCormick's Reaper Patent

Date: 1834
Description: Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus ...
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First Attempt

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck."
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Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Photography

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan.
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Naturalization

Date: 09 18 1984
Description: Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization.
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Tally Sheet for the Assembly Vote (or) Vote Record of Suffrage Bill

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Description: Tally sheet for the Assembly vote on David James's suffrage referendum bill. Photograph of the voting record of the Wisconsin Assembly on the measure to...
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Aviation License of John Kaminski

Date: 05 08 1912
Description: License #121 issued to John Kaminski in 1912 by the Aero Club of America.
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Morality Poll Results

Date: 08 27 1973
Description: "Christian Herald" editor Kenneth L. Wilson, left, and publisher, Fen Loomer look through some of the over 25,000 pieces of mail with over 160,000 signatur...
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Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: 1924
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright sits by a sunlit window in his living room at Taliesin, with papers spread before him on a table.
Manuscript

Grant Family Bible Page

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Description: Page, removed from the Grant family bible, containing an image of Jesse R. Grant, father of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Taliesin Photograph Album Title Page

Date: 1911
Description: Title page from a photograph album of images relating to Taliesin, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. The word "Taliesin" is hand-lettered next to a red squar...
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Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm receiving a full sheet of the 1948 centennial stamp.
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Nixon and Draft Bill

Date: 09 28 1971
Description: President Nixon signs a draft bill in the Oval Office of the White House while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird (second from the left) and others watch. ...
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Gorman and other AMCBWNA Leaders

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Description: Patrick Gorman, then the secretary treasurer of the international union, with other leaders at the 19th national convention.
Print

Hillside Calendar April

Date: 1895
Description: Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie...
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Joint Labor Negotiations

Date: 1962
Description: Frank Gorman of the Amalgamated Meatcutters union, and James Hoffa of the Teamsters, signing an agreement to bargain cooperatively with the F.M. Stamper Co...
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Creating Menominee County

Date: 07 1959
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a...
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Menominee Tribal Restoration

Date: 04 22 1975
Description: Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo...
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Mr. Jens with Tractor Orders

Date: 1922
Description: Mr. Jens, most likely an International Harvester employee (possibly a dealer) poses for a portrait holding a stack of tractor orders.
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International Harvester Office Scene

Date: 1921
Description: Two men look over papers at a desk surrounded by International Harvester manuals, pamphlets, and a repair list. The men may be International Harvester deal...
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Men with Agricultural Equipment

Date: 09 14 1926
Description: A man examining papers sits on the beam of an farm wagon (probably a John Deere) while others gather near him. A variety of farm machines are in the backgr...

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