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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
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...
Photograph

Carriage Stuck in the Mud

Date: 1898
Description: Horse-drawn carriage stuck in a rut on a muddy road near the Ohio River in Floyd County, Indiana. One man is holding the horse while another attempts to di...
Poster

Dodge and Stevenson Advertising Poster

Date: 1871
Description: Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull...
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Peshtigo Fire Drawing

Date: 1871
Description: Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River.
Poster

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Photograph

The "Vernie Mac" at Taylor Falls

Date: 1900
Description: A fire fighter's excursion on the "Vernie Mac" at a landing near Taylor Falls on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excursion barge is a...
Photograph

Looking up Grand Avenue

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Description: Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
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Bird's-Eye View of Janesville

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building.
Photograph

Railroad Bridge Construction

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Description: Railroad bridge construction at an unknown location somewhere on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad line. There is a church in the background on...
Photograph

22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing...
Photograph

Road Crew Crossing River

Date: 1880
Description: Crossing a river on the way to Vermillion Lake in the early 1880's, before the building of any railroads in that part of the country. The teams were part o...
Print

Randall Harrow Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field.
Drawing

Riverbank on Mississippi River

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Description: People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu...
Photograph

Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
Photograph

Man in Buggy

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Description: Man in a buggy driving a team of two horses in the country. There may be a river in the background on the left.
Photograph

Miners Pack Train

Date: 05 20 1905
Description: Elevated view of a group of miners on horseback crossing a bridge into Fairbanks, Alaska, May 20th, 1905. Houses are on the other side of the river. Captio...

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