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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype image with the caption "An old historical landmark" -- 1888 -- "The last log house in Frankfort" -- Burned June 1889. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | McCormick family group portrait at Island Lake Camp in Northwestern Wisconsin, owned by Dr. William C. Gray (editor of "The Interior") and the McCormicks. ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of Tenement Block and Megget Home (built before 1870), River Street. The buildings where the A&P Market stands. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for the Reeves Extension Oscillating Straw Stacker, with testimonial clippings. Features a color illustration top center, showing a ma... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for grass cutting machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of small children an... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a statue honoring Colonel Pierre Menard who also served as the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and fur traded with Native Americans. Dedicated ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The front side of an advertising card showing a farmer reaching over a fence for a McCormick machine. There is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick on the fence a... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The back view of a farmer reaching over a fence. He stands next to wrecked farming machinery, and the words, "Which Side Of The Fence Are You On?" Other te... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Color illustration, across 4 panels of the brochure, titled "Triumph Wins." A group of jockeys are racing horses on a racetrack, with a group of people wat... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View towards a wooden walkway over a stone wall, perhaps a spillway, crossing a body of water. A bridge is in the background. |
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