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Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

Ansel Adams on Location

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams mounting his Hasselblad camera onto the tripod on a rocky shore near or at Point Lobos.
Photograph

Ansel Adams Setting Up Camera

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams setting up his camera in a wooded waterfront area near Point Lobos.
Photograph

Ansel Adams Looking Through His Camera

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams under his dark cloth looking through the groundglass of his 8 x 10 field camera in a wooded area near Point Lobos. The Pacific Oce...
Photograph

Ansel Adams with Hasselblad at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams with a Hasselblad camera mounted on a tripod prepares to make a photograph at Point Lobos. His International Travelall is in the background.
Photograph

Ansel Adams and Tide Pool

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams makes a close-up photograph of a tide pool with his tripod mounted Hasselblad camera.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams takes a light reading with a hand-held light meter in front of his tripod mounted Hasselbald. His International Travelall is in the background.
Photograph

Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams mounts his 8 x 10 field camera onto his tripod at Point Lobos.
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Ansel Adams' Camera at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams' camera and hat at Point Lobos.
Photograph

Men Fishing From Bridge

Date: 
Description: Men fishing from a wooden bridge in front of a shoreline lined with dwellings and trees.
Photograph

Surf Fishing at Point State Park

Date: 
Description: View of men surf fishing along a rocky shoreline at Point State Park.
Photograph

A Boathouse Crowd

Date: 1920
Description: View across water toward a crowd of people standing on both the upper and lower level floors of a boathouse overlooking the lake. On the water beside the s...
Photograph

The Samoset

Date: 1910
Description: A group of adults, mostly women, walk along the Rockland Breakwater. The Samoset Resort is in the background on the shoreline. Caption reads: "The Samoset ...
Drawing

Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
Photograph

The Beach

Date: 
Description: People wearing bathing suits swim in the ocean and lie on the beach.
Photograph

Crew on Higgins Boat

Date: 08 11 1943
Description: Crew of four aboard a Higgins boat, also known as a LCVP, which stands for "Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel." Their names, left to right, are Fireman 1st...
Photograph

Small Vessels Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 12-18

Date: 
Description: She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here
on the outer edge of worry
It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice
A ha...
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
Description: Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th...
Photograph

Scout at Bird Sanctuary

Date: 
Description: Man sitting in pale yellow Scout parked at bird sanctuary. Hat and fishing gear are resting on the grass in the foreground, ocean is in the background.

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