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Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Della Royal and Horse

Date: 1906
Description: Della Royal (Mrs. Rhoda Royal) sits in a 2-wheeled cart decorated with flowers and harnessed to her world famous horse, "Glendive," as taken from a 1906 ha...
Photograph

Circus Show Buggy and Bandwagon

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Description: Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ...
Photograph

Frank B. Miller with Trained Stallion

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Description: Frank B. Miller with a trained spotted stallion, sitting on its rear legs, whose trainer was with the Norris & Rowe shows. They were photographed at winter...
Photograph

Family in Yard and Woman on Horseback

Date: 1869
Description: A family poses in a yard with one elegantly dressed young woman on horseback. The frame house has an unusually shaped attic story fan window. The porch is ...
Photograph

Two Women at Horse Stall

Date: 09 08 1940
Description: Two women modeling Manchester clothes while standing in front of a horse stall. A dog is on the left. "Hundred to One, It's for You" Manchester's new Fall ...
Photograph

Two Women in Buggy

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Description: Two fashionably dressed women sit in a buggy that is pulled by a horse. The corner of a building is in the background on the right.
Photograph

Brandels on Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: Members of the Brandel family (probably), two men and one woman, pose on Main Street.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Parade Carriage

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Description: Horse-drawn carriage elaborately decorated with flowers appears to be stopped off parade route. The carriage is carrying four women wearing formal dresses ...
Photograph

Vernon Castle and Irene Castle.

Date: 1914
Description: The husband-wife dance team Vernon and Irene Castle on horseback on Long Island, a publicity photograph by Haas Photos of New York.
Photograph

Fountain in South Park

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Description: A man has stopped his carriage at the fountain in South Park so his horse can drink water. A woman sits beside the driver, and a young boy stands behind th...
Photograph

Spectators Watching a Horse Show

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Description: Spectators watch a horse show from a grandstand while others stand near automobiles in the background. A building and a flag can be seen nearby.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig...
Photograph

Ready for Elks Parade at Oshkosh

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-colored view of a horse and carriage decorated for a parade. Jessie Jack Hooper, wearing a floral hat, holds a decorated parasol in the front seat. A ...
Photograph

Two Women in a Flower Bedecked Horse-Drawn Cart

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Description: Two women in fancy hats and summer dresses are sitting in a horse-drawn cart which has flower bedecked wheels and seat. One of the woman has an umbrella. I...
Photograph

Walter Vail Johnston Family

Date: 1933
Description: Walter Vail Johnston, far left, and his wife June Crandall Johnston, second from left, posing with their six children in front of their large house on Dean...
Photograph

Fred and Ethel

Date: 10 30 1905
Description: Fred von der Sump and Ethel Wallace sitting in a buggy hitched to a matched pair of horses. Fred is wearing a suit with overcoat and hat; Ethel is wearing ...

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