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Painting

Nellie Jane Manning

Date: 
Description: Full-length portrait of Nellie Jane Manning.
Photograph

Ganna Walska Holding a Cat

Date: 1921
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ganna Walska, Polish opera singer, holding a cat. At the time this picture was taken, Ganna Walska was th...
Magazine or Periodical

Santa Claus and New Year

Date: 1878
Description: Cartoon of "Santa Claus Belated" by a fireplace delivering toys and speaking to a figure representing New Year 1878 saying: "Here we are again."
Drawing

Derleth Wedding Card by Dwig

Date: 1953
Description: Original wedding cartoon presented to Wisconsin writer August Derleth on the occasion of his marriage to Sandra Winters by cartoonist Clare V. "Dwig" Dwigg...
Photograph

Ruth Stonehouse and her Cat, Leo

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "Ruth Stonehouse, one of the featured players in the all star cast of The Hope, the latest in Metro's series of pictures founded ...
Photograph

Mabel Taliaferro, an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier Puppy, and a Cat

Date: 1917
Description: Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
Photograph

Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
Description: View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr...
Print

Secession Soup

Date: 1860
Description: A cat, labeled "MISSOURI," is tasting soup from a steaming kettle over a wood fire. The kettle is labeled: "SECESSION SOUP." The cat is wearing a vest, apr...
Print

I Have Nine Lives of Love for You, My Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card of a black cartoon cat made of five pieces. It has a metal paper fastener in the center that allows movement of the head, legs and tai...
Photograph

Two Women and Piano

Date: 1900
Description: Two well-dressed young women pose in front of a piano. One holds a fan in her lap, the other holds a piece of sheet music titled "When We Were Two Little B...
Photograph

Women in a Parlour

Date: 
Description: Four women are posing sitting in a parlor in front of an organ. One of the women is sitting on the floor holding a kitten.
Photograph

Interior of George Fred Keck Designed Home

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the living room of a George Fred Keck designed home. A woman is relaxing in a chair with a cat in her lap, and her dog lies on the floor n...
Photograph

Man Standing Atop Truck Trailer with Big Cat Mural

Date: 1975
Description: View of a man in a red jacket holding paint brushes and a palette while standing atop a truck trailer. The side of the trailer is painted with a mural of f...
Photograph

Children Looking at "Save Our Cats" Mural on Trailer

Date: 1975
Description: View of a group of children in jackets and an adult looking at a mural of endangered big cat species painted on a trailer. The painting was part of one of ...
Magazine or Periodical

The New Year—1869

Date: 01 1869
Description: Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r...
Print

Rupert's Roadkill Cafe Menu

Date: 1986
Description: Front cover and imagined bill of fare for "Rupert's Roadkill Cafe: You Kill It ... ... We Grill It!," with a cartoon drawing of a cat standing on long, fla...
Photograph

Adelaide Woods and Myrtle Stedman Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Mrs. Cleave (played by Adelaide Woods) and her adopted daughter Ruth (Myrtle Stedman) are seated for a meal in their humble home in a scene still for "The ...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t...
Photograph

General Store; Interior

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Description: Interior portrait of a young European American man posing standing in a general store. He is wearing a dark-colored suit coat and hat, and is standing at t...

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