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Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Horse racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre. Three Sioux Indians on horseback in foreground and Fort Pierre in distance. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Interior of the hut of a Mandan chief showing various objects and animals with five Mandans seated on ground. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Ischohä-Kakoschóchatä, Dance of the Mandan Indians. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Children at fountain on Broadway and Superior. Two girls are sitting in a pony-cart, a girl is looking through a railing with a dog, while a boy is filling... |
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: | 1875 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Eagle Mowing and Reaping Machine Company featuring an engraved illustration of a farmer riding a horse-drawn mower... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
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