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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Includes color illustrations of a grain binder, mower, reaper and a large steam powered sa... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Back cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog with a color illustration of a horse-drawn grain binder, a mower, and a corn binder on the ope... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising McCormick Harvesting Machines in German. Features an illustration of a grain binder in use. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of Alma from the Mississippi River, with wing dam on right. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View towards front entrance of the partially constructed Senior High School. A man is walking up a board into the open doorway of the school. A horse is st... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of the January, 1897 issue of the Agricultural Advertising periodical. Slogan on front says: "Has been, is now and will continu... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Cover of the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company Annual Descriptive Catalog. Features an owl at the top with the words: "A Word to the Wise." At the bottom it s... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog with red background, text and decorative frames in gold ink, and illustrations of agricultural machinery in black ink. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Back cover of catalog with red background, text and decorative frames in gold ink, and an illustration in black ink of a man riding a Janesville Rotary Dis... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover, and two inside pages of a small pamphlet with text and illustrations in blue ink. The front has a small illustration of a man wearing... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Front cover of Massey-Harris farm machinery catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman wearing a long, white gown and a laurel leaf crown, holding a... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The left side (front cover) features a color illustration of a woman in a red dress who is holding up branches, and is wearing two gold colored bangles on ... |
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