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Danish McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of stockyard outside a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership in Copenhagen, Denmark. The yard is filled with boxes containing McCor...
Photograph

Mussolini and Bust

Date: 1927
Description: Sculptor Jo Davidson stands with Benito Mussolini and his bust-in-progress of Mussolini.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for the Excelsior line of harvesting machines manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features an illustration with the title: "Nap...
Print

Columbus Departs Spain

Date: 1655
Description: Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492.
Print

Columbus Meets with a Cacique in Marien Province, Haiti

Date: 1655
Description: Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492.
Print

Columbus Is Sent Back to Spain a Prisoner with His Brother Bartholomew

Date: 1655
Description: Scene on Hispaniola in 1500, when Columbus was forced to return to Spain after a new adminstrator had arrived.
Print

Vespucci Arrives in Paria; Customs of the Indians

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Surprise Attack on the Lake City of Aruba

Date: 1655
Description: Battle during the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Dragons Chained for Later Roasting

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Indians Fight Invaders

Date: 1655
Description: Battle during the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Vespucci on the Island of Giants, Curacao

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Indians Take Revenge on the Priests

Date: 1655
Description: Girolamo Benzoni (1519-1570) was an Italian from Milan who spent the years 1541-1556 in the New World. His observations of Spanish imperialism were publish...
Print

Spanish Massacre French

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1565.
Print

Francis Drake's Hat Stolen by Indians near Rio de la Plata

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Drake Expedition near Rio de la Plata, Brazil, ca. 1578.
Print

Captain John Smith Saved by Pochahontas

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1607.
Print

Captain John Smith Taken Prisoner by the French during a Storm at Sea

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1615.
Photograph

Russell Jones with Group of Journalists

Date: 11 1956
Description: Russell Jones, facing camera wearing a light trench coat, standing with a group of journalists on a street corner during the fighting in Budapest, Hungary....
Photograph

Crimean Conference

Date: 02 1945
Description: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph Stalin seated on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Russia, ...
Photograph

Night School

Date: 05 1940
Description: Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House.

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