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Smith Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1851
Description: Smith Hall at Ripon College features a three-story porch, supported by columns and which shelters the entrance. Brackets add decoration to the roof. Vines ...
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Let the Smiles of Youth Appearing

Date: 1855
Description: Valentine's Day card with a cornucopia filled with flowers and foliage. On the edge of the mouth it reads: "Let the Smiles of Youth Appearing." Music notat...
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Flower and Leaf Valentine

Date: 1855
Description: Valentine's Day card with a flower and large leaf. A verse is printed on the leaf. It reads: "Vainly shall we list for voices, made by absence doubly dear,...
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If Souls Could Always Dwell Above

Date: 1850
Description: Valentine's Day card with a center oval-framed image of a woman and a cherub leaning on an ornamental stone wall. A column with an ornate top is to the rig...
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The Pet Bird

Date: 01 1852
Description: A colored engraving depicting a bird under a glass dome with flowers and plants on a decorative shelf.
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The Presidential Candidates

Date: 1856
Description: Engravings of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican and Know Nothing parties for the Tuesday, November 4th, 185...
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Mystical Seven Septennial Festival Menu

Date: 08 02 1858
Description: One-page menu of the Mystical Seven secret society and fraternal order, with an emblem with a skull surrounded by a laurel wreath, and a crossed serpent, s...
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Masked Laughingthrush

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the adult male Garrulax perspicillatus. It was created from William Heine's drawings of...

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