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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield. |
| 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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a... |
| Date: | 04 1892 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A passenger pigeon on a perch. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whit... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | A Miami Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Massinnewa (1827). He holds a bow and arrows, and a killed ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fair circular (catalog). The cover is illustrated with a lake and mountain scene and includes the text "Man... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | While passing through the English Channel in May 1856 Hölzlhuber viewed the Isle of Wight. "The island is located in the English Channel not far from Hamps... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct, with its shadow projected on the wall of the cage behind. Part of a group of pigeons t... |
| Date: | 10 14 1861 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Old Abe, mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Voluntary Infantry, displayed for a crowd. The eagle bearer holds Old Abe's staff perch while t... |
| Date: | 02 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Centennial photograph of Old Abe, perched on a stars and stripes shield. The live war eagle was carried during the Civil War, by the 8th Wisconsin Voluntee... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, Old Abe as an adolescent standing on a shield perch outdoors. The young eagle stands in profile and his head fea... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | "Good Testimony, Read, Read!," a broadside issued by citizens of Milwaukee in support of the gubernatorial candidacy of the Whig candidate, Leonard J. Farw... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising card produced by William Deering and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of dogs fighting over a tu... |
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