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Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
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Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
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Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of E. Harwood, Dr. William Brisbane, and Levi Coffin, sitting in a row. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman C. Draper. This shows him at the time he assumed the position of Historical Society superintendent, at the age of 38. |
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Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Advertising poster with inset color illustrations showing Deering brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes. Includes an illustration of four old... |
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Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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