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Frank Lloyd Wright's River Forest Tennis Club Membership Card

Date: 1907
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright's membership card from the River Forest Tennis Club for the 1907 season. The image on the card is of the River Forest Tennis Club desig...
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Imperial Hotel Brochure

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Description: Cover of an English-language tourist brochure entitled "Imperial Hotel Tokio." The brief text does not mention the hotel's famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wr...
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Across Bridge in Wauwatosa

Date: 1870
Description: An advertisement featuring Wauwatosa, showing the First Baptist Church, on the left, built in 1854 and the First Congregational Church, on the right built ...
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Grant County Soldier's Monument

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view of the Grant County Soldier's Monument. A group of people are standing around the monument. A large building is in the background. Caption at...
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Imperial Hotel Brochure

Date: 1935
Description: English-language brochure advertising Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, with front cover illustration and back cover schedule of events.
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Imperial Hotel Brochure

Date: 1935
Description: Inside pages of English-language brochure advertising Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
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Imperial Hotel Wrapping Paper

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Description: Wrapping paper used by the Imperial Hotel. The hotel was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Sister's House

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Description: Caption reads: "Sisters' House, Academy and Orphanage Van Buren St." Three trees stand in front of the building. A woman is in front left of center, and tw...
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Prison for Confederate Soldiers at Rock Island

Date: 1864
Description: Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island.
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Libby Prison

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Description: Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t...
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Fortress Monroe

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Description: The old fortifications at Fort Monroe, built to defend Hampton Roads and the mouth of the James River. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned here from 1865 to 186...
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Ship Canal, Sault St. Marie

Date: 1873
Description: Engraved image of a lock and dam at Sault St. Marie. Two men are operating the sluice as ships are waiting on the opposite side of the lock. Another man is...
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Park Hotel Dinner Menu

Date: 04 06 1884
Description: Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam...
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Breakfast in Heidelberg for American Journalists Menu

Date: 05 05 1928
Description: Front and back sides of a menu (in German) for a breakfast given by the city of Heidelberg to honor American journalists, with a scene of the Heidelberg Ca...
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Breakfast in Heidelberg for American Journalists Menu

Date: 05 05 1928
Description: Front and back sides of a menu (in German) for a breakfast given by the city of Heidelberg to honor American journalists. On the front is a songbird perche...
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City of London

Date: 1810
Description: View of the city of Lincoln, England. Photocopy after an engraving by B.G. Topham.
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Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social Banquet Menu

Date: 1952
Description: Front cover and menu page for a banquet given by the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social to the senior delegates to the fourth reunion of the Inter-Americ...
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R.M.S.S. Magdalena Dinner Menu

Date: 08 09 1890
Description: One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan...
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M.S. Kungsholm Dinner Menu

Date: 01 13 1934
Description: Handwritten menu and "Bon Voyage" greeting in a card from the Swedish American Line, with a Swedish castle on the cover, and on the inside of the card, a t...

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