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| Date: | 10 1891 |
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| Description: | The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Site of the Battle of Antietam. The bloody lane. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | An engraving of the Battle of Gettysburg, after the painting by P.F. Rothermel. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Skull and Crossbones wearing a jester's cap with bells. J and D are on the earflaps, probably referring to Jefferson Davis as a fool. On the crossbones i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A graphic design of a Confederate officer labeled "SECESSION" hanging by the neck from a beam. He is choking, his tongue is hanging out and his eyes are pr... |
| Date: | 01 1869 |
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| Description: | Engraving after a drawing by Winslow Homer showing a crowned Baby New Year riding a velocipede through a hoop held by a woman, as the Grim Reaper, on the r... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| Date: | 01 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing people attempting to locate loved ones among the bodies recovered from the Newhall House fire. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six deer hunters are posing with their rifles, dogs, and nine killed deer hanging from a buck pole supported by log structures on the left and right. |
| Date: | 07 08 1885 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the aftermath of a cyclone. The debris may be the remains of a stable. In the foreground is a dead horse, with the remains of a buggy and a ... |
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