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Painting

Marquette and Joliet

Date: 1921
Description: Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Print

Francis Drake's Hat Stolen by Indians near Rio de la Plata

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Drake Expedition near Rio de la Plata, Brazil, ca. 1578.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Photograph

Attilio Gatti and His Wife

Date: 03 30 1938
Description: Attilio Gatti and his wife pose for the camera during their expedition to the African Congo. International Harvester sponsored the expedition and Gatti use...
Photograph

Mrs. Attilio Gatti

Date: 03 30 1938
Description: Mrs. Attilio Gatti carried by four Congolese men during her husband's expedition to the African Congo. The expedition was sponsored by the International Ha...
Photograph

Clyde and Weldon King in Gatti Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Clyde King, Vice President of International Harvester Export Company, bids his son, second officer of the Gatti Hallicrafters Expe...
Photograph

Commander Attilio Gatti in Africa

Date: 1939
Description: Commander Attilio Gatti poses in front of a Congolese village during his tenth expedition to Africa. The expedition was sponsored by International Harveste...
Photograph

Cocktail Hour in the Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Commander and Mrs. Attilio Gatti have cocktails during the Commander's tenth African expedition. The expedition was sponsored by International Harvester. T...
Photograph

Explorers Photographing in the African Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold...
Photograph

Robert Kennicott, Naturalist

Date: 1862
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Robert Kennicott (1835-1866), American Naturalist. After 1853 he worked for Spencer Fullerton Baird at the Smithsonian Insti...
Photograph

Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
Photograph

Portrait of Man Wearing Hat

Date: 01 30 1929
Description: Portrait of the Baron Bror Frederick Von-Blixen-Finecke, a "Swedish nobleman, noted sportsman, explorer and big-game hunter." The Baron accompanied Interna...
Photograph

Attilio Gatti with Mrs. Ellen Gatti

Date: 1938
Description: Mrs. Ellen Waddill Gatti leans from the window of a truck marked "10th Gatti African Expedition," while Commander Attilio Gatti stands outside the vehicle ...
Painting

Marquette and Joliet Discover the Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o...
Photograph

Cristoforo Colombo

Date: 
Description: Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 5/20/1506), navigator, colonizer, and explorer, by Italian Renaissance painter Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (...
Photograph

Commander Attilio Gatti at Pier

Date: 10 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Loading Gatti-Hallicrafter Expedition equipment, including 8 International trucks on the 'S.S. Pilgrim' at the American South Afri...
Photograph

Gatti Expedition Trucks on the Streets of New York

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition being assembled outside Manhattan showrooms of International Harvester Company preparatory to depar...
Photograph

Members of Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Shown in the above round-up are the members of the Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition. They are left to right: John Powers, writer; Ro...
Photograph

Member of Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "E.C. Prince, photographer member of the Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition, is shown entering a Higgins camp trailer to be used in Afr...

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