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Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame...
Photograph

Frederick Jackson Turner

Date: 1884
Description: Portrait, head and shoulders of Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, scholar, and writer. As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin.
Painting

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1884
Description: Color portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), possibly by Lawton S. Parker.
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick and his Wife Nettie

Date: 1884
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) with his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 ...
Book or Pamphlet

Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln and Union Commanders

Date: 1884
Description: This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil...
Photograph

Portage Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: A group of men and boys posed around Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive # 313, a switch engine. The Fox House is in the background.
Photograph

The "Gracie May" Locomotive

Date: 1884
Description: The Fairchild and Northwestern locomotive the "Gracie May," named for Gracie May Foster. Several people pose near the locomotive, including Robert Holmes a...
Photograph

Hawks Tavern

Date: 1884
Description: Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side.
Print

Osborne Twine Binder Advertisement

Date: 1884
Description: Advertisement for the Number 14 Osborne Light Twine Binder, featuring a color illustration of a man using a horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
Print

Osborne Harvester Advertisement

Date: 1884
Description: Advertising handbill for the Osborne Self-Binding Harvester with text reading: "The Osborne Gold Medal" and "A Perfect Success in Every Field."
Photograph

Josiah Monroe May

Date: 1884
Description: A carte-de-visite of Josiah Monroe May in a wagon, at the age of about 60 years.
Photograph

St. Mary's Church

Date: 1884
Description: A distant view of St. Mary's Church. Looking north from the corner of Main and Franklin Streets.
Photograph

Dr. James A. Jackson Sr. Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Dr. James A. Jackson residence, 123 North Pinckney Street. Dr. Jackson is standing by the fence; his wife Sydonia Jackson is in the center, lower window, a...
Photograph

Matthias Stein Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,...
Photograph

Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Elevated view of the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of Grand Army of the Republic in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1884.
Photograph

Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
Photograph

Waupaca House

Date: 1884
Description: Copy photograph of a group portrait outside the Waupaca House general store.
Book or Pamphlet

North American Agricultural Implement and General Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1884
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A...

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