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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Champion line of reapers and mowers manufactured by Warder, Mitchell, and Company. The cover features a color illu... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the 1879 Wisconsin State Fair held at Camp Randall in Madison. The poster features a drawing of a hot air balloon and boasts of special ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of a main street looking towards The Fulton Meat Market, P. Carrington Harness shop, a livery stable, feed store, restaurant and bakery. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of main street in Lake Mills. On the left of the image are the Fargo and Ostrander store, Farmer's Cash Store and Drugs, and A.J. Foster Harness Shop.... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Champion Self-Raking Reaper and Mower. This page was taken from an 1879 catalog for Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Co. of Springfield, O... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Flyer advertising the McCormick Harvester & Self-Binder for sale through London agents Waite, Burnell, Huggins & Co. Features an illustration of the machi... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A map of Jackson County, Wisconsin, shows the township and section survey, landownership, towns, villages, buildings, roads, railroads, county land, and st... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Features a color illustration of a man using a horse-drawn sulky rake. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Front page of 4-page advertisement with an illustration featuring a man using a team of horses to pull a grain drill in a field. |
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