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Photograph

Railroad Office

Date: 1887
Description: General office of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company in the Mitchell Building in Milwaukee. Left to right: the individual seated in left ...
Manuscript

Co-operative Collars and Cuffs

Date: 1887
Description: Advertisement for K. of L. Brand Co-operative Collars and Cuffs showing illustrations of collars. It includes the statement "The Only Union Made Collars".
Photograph

Lumber Rafts in Narrows

Date: 1887
Description: Two lumber rafts with men aboard floating down the Wisconsin River.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Painting

Artist at Work on the Jerusalem Panorama

Date: 1887
Description: Photograph of a watercolor painting by F.W. Heine of fellow artist Franz Rohrbeck. Rohrbeck is painting a study of a figure for the Jerusalem panorama (c...
Poster

The McCormick at Work in Asiatic Russia

Date: 1887
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring color illustration of grain binders drawn by camels in a field. The caption reads...
Poster

McCormick No. 4 Mower Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Color illustration of the horse-drawn "New McCormick Steel Mower No. 4" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
Print

McCormick Grain Binder Illustration

Date: 1887
Description: Color illustration of a "McCormick Steel Harvester and Binder" from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo.
Print

Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1887
Description: Illustration of men harvesting grain with Cyrus McCormick's reaper of 1831. The illustration appeared in an advertising folder produced by the McCormick Ha...
Photograph

Old Trading Post

Date: 1887
Description: View of the boom company office and the site of the old trading post.
Photograph

Ramsay & Jones Mill Yard

Date: 1887
Description: Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover with the title: "A Group of Folding Binders" and four color illustrations. The top left illustration shows a man driving "The No. 7 Light Excels...
Photograph

Louisa May Alcott

Date: 1887
Description: Seated profile portrait of American novelist Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and its sequels.

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