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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 05 30 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Osborne twine binder. Describes the results of a contest between the Osborne machine and machines made by McCormick, Deering, ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| 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: | 04 29 1886 |
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| Description: | A proposal to the Knights of Labor of America regarding organizing a Linen Collar and Cuff Manufactory. |
| Date: | 02 1886 |
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| Description: | A formal announcement of a Co-operative Fair that was held in March of 1886. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for K. of L. Brand Co-operative Collars and Cuffs showing illustrations of collars. It includes the statement "The Only Union Made Collars". |
| Date: | 11 29 1888 |
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| Description: | Advertisements for co-operative companies including Co-operative Collar and Cuff Company, Solidarity Watch Case Company and a tailoring company. They appea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Madison Hospital, 413-415 South Baldwin Street. Also known as the Gill & Boyd Hospital, opened in 1889 and existed for just a few years. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the drugstore of Joseph Mabbett Alcott at 90 Wisconsin Street. Pictured are Charles Alcott (left), his son, and store helpers. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Street scene with customers in front of the M.P. Roberts Drugstore and C. Baack Flour and Feed Store. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | View of the exterior of the Pharmacie Werner in Boulay/Bolchen, France. This region was part of Germany in 1889. Two men are standing in front of the build... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A pharmacist is standing behind the sales counter at the Pharmacie Werner in Boulay, France. At the time, Boulay was part of Germany. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | A view of part of the interior of the Pharmacie Werner in Boulay, France. This region was part of Germany when this photograph was taken. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A pharmacist is standing in front of a case of labeled medical ingredients in the Pharmacie Werner in Boulay, France. This region was part of Germany when ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1853 |
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| Description: | An engraving of the second Wisconsin State Capitol (the first built in Madison) that appeared on the notes of the State Bank of Madison, the first bank org... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the J.N. Hegeman Drugstore at 60 Fulton Avenue. Left to right: a clerk, J.W. Ferris, an errand boy, William O'Bry, and a porter. |
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