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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Beechnut Gum girls, posed in front of an automobile, promoting the product for a national advertising campaign. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel steam rafter "Clyde," which was the first iron hull steamboat. Sign on side of boat reads: "Dubuque, Reads Landing & Eau Claire." Agricultura... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Comedians Ole Olsen and "Chic" Johnson, called "the mirth provokers of a nation," posing in front of a streetcar that displays an advertisement for their "... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | James Robinson and E. Newton of the Professional Pharmacy prepare to load a Linde oxygen tank for home delivery. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Station manager Ron Nicols and an International Scout truck with plow outside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio station headquarters. WVLR shared quarters with C... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ... |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett and men posing on bow of "Dell Queen" steamboat. There are two men with violins, one with a harp. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett and group of men posing on bow of "Dell Queen" steamboat. There are two men with violins, one with a harp. |
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| Description: | Harpist and violinist posed on the steamboat "New Dell Queen." |
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| Description: | Polish opera singer Ganna Walska in front of the Coliseum in Rome, Italy. Ms. Walska was the second wife of Harold Fowler McCormick. |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | McCormick Works employee Peter Butzen with paint can and brush, applying pin-stripes to binder parts. He is posing with mower drivetrains hanging from hook... |
| Date: | 02 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Cameraman riding on a platform pulled by a McCormick-Deering tractor. The man appears to be filming the tractor while it is in motion. |
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