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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1891
Description: Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent...
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Hunting of the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1832
Description: Hunting of the grizzly bear.
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Mexican Snookum Bear (Coati)

Date: 06 03 1931
Description: Jim McWilliams, "Pianutist" vaudeville actor, and Fred Winklemann, Zoo director, with the Mexican Snookum bear (coati), at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
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The Bear Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Indian dance, with some wearing bear masks (Plate 18).

"Next in importance to the buffalo hunts, and not less exciting and spirited in its character, is ...

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Attacking the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on horseback trying to kill a bear (Plate 19).

"The preliminaries of the hunt for the Grizzly Bear having been settled in the manner described in...

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Smokey Bear with Girl

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub with Judy Bell in front of a fire-prevention poster featuring the character for whom the young bear was named.
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity photograph by Gerald Carpenter of Los Angeles. Three-quarter length portrait of Valeska Suratt wearing a white fur suit, hat, and muffler as she ...
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Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity photograph by Gerald Carpenter of Los Angeles. Valeska Suratt lounges in a dressing gown and net undergarments and holds a hand mirror as she sit...
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Valeska Suratt Publicity Photograph

Date: 1916
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Suratt wearing a white fur suit as she sits on a black bear rug.
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Southern Menagerie Is Coming

Date: 1860
Description: A circus traveling on the road has three cages, the first and second are flying the Confederate flag. A stone at the side of the road says "TO BOSTON." "T...
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Walter Lofblad and His Carvings

Date: 08 12 1960
Description: Walter Lofblad, a Cumberland farmer, with miniature Milwaukee Braves figures he carved from basswood. The carved set includes the entire starting lineup, m...
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Film Still of "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on...
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Caveman Sid

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Description: View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h...
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Gisholt Polar Bear and Perch Club

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Description: ONe-fold, copy art invitation that is a drawing of a white bear wearing pants, a coat and hat riding on the back of a fish. The bear's hand is holding onto...

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