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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a field of grain with a man harvesting by hand at an "1801"... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Employees of a McCormick dealership and family members standing in a pavilion with a display of McCormick farm machinery. A crowd is pressed up against the... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Elisha D. Smith Library built by Van Ryn and De Gelleke. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a schoolmaster in front of men from many nations. Includes the caption "all natio... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A Christmas tree on a tabletop is lit up in a dark living room, possibly in the home of Frederick King Conover. Toys, including a top, sled, and books, are... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Copy of an artist's rendition of an exterior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. Pen and ink drawing is signed: "G.J. de Gelleke, 1899." Bottom of drawing... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Krueger holding a book in his lap and holding a pair of eyeglasses. Behind him, a long pipe is resting against a table on which a box i... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of August Krueger, left, and August Hable, right. The men, who met while Krueger worked on the great lakes, are holding hats and newspaper... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office, Madison, Wis. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of eight members of the Thwaites family. Three of the women are sitting, and one has a young boy sitting in her lap. Two men, a woma... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an unknown women standing in a doorway. The tall doorway has a drape on a pole just underneath a transom window or screen. A coat i... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two photographs featuring Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo holding her son Stuart are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted pussy willow t... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of President McKinley speaking to a large crowd from a stage decorated with bunting. In the background are buildings and train cars. Caption re... |
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