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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Poultry Class. A large group of students is standing outside near cages. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester engine service showing two bluebirds nesting over an "IH Service" sign. Includes the text: "for the love of ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield. |
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| Description: | Cock-of-the-Rock is named for its distinctive crest. It is from the bird family Cotingidae, and native to the tropical rain forests of South America and G... |
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| Description: | The American or Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is the national symbol of the United States. It is the only eagle unique to North America, and is li... |
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| Description: | The cardinal, or redbird is a finch found throughout the Americas. Its defining features include bright red plumage, a musical song, and a pointed crest o... |
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| Description: | The kingfisher, from the Alcedinidae family is noted for its crested head, bright colors, and long, sharp bill. Most species feed on fish by diving and gr... |
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| Description: | The woodpecker is a brightly colored bird of the family, Picidae. It has a stiff tail and strong claws to aid in climbing, and a chisel-like beak for bori... |
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| Description: | Yellow Bellied Broad Tail is a variety of parakeet. |
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| Description: | The Blue Headed Tanager is a New World songbird from the family Thraupidae, known for its brightly-colored plumage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Young boy inspecting a robin's nest on the engine of a Farmall H tractor. Original caption reads: "Spring-time on the farm. Even though his father uses thi... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cover of French advertising brochure for Amouroux Freres agricultural equipment featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of an angel, bird, flowers ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Bluebell line of cream separators. Features an illustration of a woman encountering a bird an... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Advertising catalog for International Harvester cultivators. Features an illustration of a woman feeding birds. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655). |
| Date: | 09 21 1867 |
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| Description: | Illustration of four men shooting at a thick flock of wild pigeons. Hunting dogs are gathered around them in the field, which has a number of dead birds. |
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