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Hunting of the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1832
Description: Hunting of the grizzly bear.
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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...

Photograph

Smokey Poster Design #2

Date: 1944
Description: Poster design of Clarke-McNary Forest Protection Program depicting Smokey Bear pouring water on a campfire.
Photograph

Smokey the Bear and Kids

Date: 
Description: Man in a Smokey The Bear costume poses behind a school desk with a boy and a girl.
Map or Atlas

Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Date: 1930
Description: Pictorial map of Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Illustrated by Joe Scheurle, it depicts white people, American ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Refrigeration Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International refrigeration, including "walk-in" and "reach-in" milk and beverage coolers. The cover features an illus...
Drawing

Polar Frozen Custard Label

Date: 07 02 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features a polar bear licking a large ice cream cone. There are floating blocks of ic...
Photograph

Caveman Sid

Date: 
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...
Map or Atlas

Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, et Divisée Suivant les Differentes Possessions des Européens

Date: 1758
Description: This map of the north-west hemisphere shows the cities, lakes, rivers, mountains, and political borders. In the upper left corner sits a decorative cartouc...
Map or Atlas

America Septentrionalis

Date: 1636
Description: Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on...
Postcard

Out for a Stroll

Date: 
Description: View towards a black bear walking up a road. Text reads: "Out for a Stroll, Greetings from Mercer, Wisconsin."

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