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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1890
Description: Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to...
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Portrait of Agassiz and Agassiz

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Description: Carte-de-visite photomontage double portrait of the geologist and zoologist, Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz (1807-1873). Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoo...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Description: Photographic holiday card from Marie and Averell Harriman. Mr. Harriman was governor of New York 1955-1958, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1943-1946, ...
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Mechanical Drawing and Workshop Mathematics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Students are seated at desks in a mechanical drawing and workshop mathematics class at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
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Seifert and Lawton Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Seifert and Lawton, power press lithographers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the left is a woman dressed in robes reclining on a chaise longue, ...
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Hager City Telephone Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Hager City Telephone Company of Hager City, Wisconsin, with a line of telephone poles and wires connecting a man in a business suit sitti...
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Milwaukee Journal Tour Club Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Club, a national automobile club, with a three-quarter view of the company building surrounded by scenes of a hote...
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Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific Railway Lounge and Buffet Service Menu

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Description: Buffet luncheon and drinks menu for the CMSP&P railway, with a waiter ready to serve a table of three men sitting at a table in the lounge car with drinks ...
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Black Steer Wine List Menu

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Description: Wine list menu for The Black Steer, with a waiter holding a serving tray with a bottle and two glasses, and making an "okay" motion with his other hand; in...
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Group Portrait of People in the Home of Amos Elliot

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Description: Indoor group portrait of five European American woman posing sitting and standing, and a European American man posing sitting around a large table. The man...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1908
Description: Front cover and menu page of the annual banquet for the Old Settlers' Club. On the top left of the cover is an oval portrait of club president George Willi...
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R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam Dinner Menu

Date: 05 15 1948
Description: Dinner menu from the Holland-America Line ship R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, with an illustration of "A Repast About 100 B.C.," with men and a woman gathe...
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R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam Dinner Menu

Date: 05 13 1948
Description: Dinner menu from the Holland-America Line ship R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, with "A Repast About 1830," with men, women, and a child gathered around a ta...
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R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam Dinner Menu

Date: 05 14 1948
Description: Dinner menu from the Holland-America Line ship R.M.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, with "A Repast About 1900," with men in tuxedos and women in long gowns sitti...
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Boy Sitting at Table

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Description: A boy is sitting on a book or box on top of a chair at a small wooden table holding playing cards. Against the wall in the background are bookshelves, cove...
Manuscript

Electrical and Steel Sales Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead for the Electrical and Steel Sales Co., with black and white photographs of examples of the company's steel products, such as casters, dollies, ...
Photograph

Interior Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Portrait of two women posing sitting in front of a door.
Historical Object

Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 1899
Description: A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le...
Postcard

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 1988
Description: A postcard with George H.W. Bush's face superimposed over the face of a woman standing next to a typewriter, desk and chair. The text reads: "GEORGE BUSH I...

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