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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of "Santa Claus Belated" by a fireplace delivering toys and speaking to a figure representing New Year 1878 saying: "Here we are again." |
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| Description: | A large group of people sitting around a table in the yard. The men and women are wearing hats. The table has a large piece of ornamental glassware on it. ... |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
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| Description: | A family is in the yard around a table. A baby sits in a high chair and a man and woman are seated on a loveseat. Behind them is a frame house with an orga... |
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| Description: | A tent of the Chicago Traveling Club with a sign on it saying "Always Hungry," and men with walking sticks, straw hats and a flute lounging on the ground i... |
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| Description: | Seated indoor portrait of boy in checked suit and girl in plaid dress, perhaps taken at Dahl's DeForest studio. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Outline map of Manitowoc County. Includes engraving of Wisconsin State Seal at bottom right. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Ocatagon House, the residence of Mrs. Eliza Richards. Several trees dot the landscape and other buildings can be seen in the distance at right... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the women's marching band from John Wanamaker Commercial Institute performing, with children walking beside them and standing on the side ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Newspaper advertisement for Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator for diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. A long list of diseases the tonic treated is wr... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a studio portrait of two girls posed in a small "boat" in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing fancy dresses, and one girl hold... |
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| Description: | A handheld fan made of wood and cloth. This fan depicts the event it was made to commemorate — the 1878 Exposition Universelle held in Paris, France. The f... |
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| Description: | Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a crowd watching bicyclists on penny-farthings, who are racing around a track inside a tent. Below illustration is the text "From the Priva... |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University. |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of the Honorable Abraham G. Adams, a boot and shoe salesman in Burlington, IA. His success in business led him to invest in the devel... |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of Austin Adams, a lawyer who became an Iowa Supreme Court justice (1876-1892), Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1880-1892), ... |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Charles Aldrich, a newspaper owner and writer and Free Soil Party member of the Iowa State Assembly from 1860-1882. He se... |
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