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Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Photograph

Interior View of Suspension Bridge

Date: 1877
Description: View towards men and women sitting and standing, beneath the lower deck of a suspension bridge (train uses upper deck). There are two booths (for tolls or ...
Photograph

Niagara Falls from Canada Side

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Cata...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1925
Description: View of a man standing near the pond and spillway on the grounds of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex. Taliesin is ...
Photograph

Pathfinder on Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline towards the Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder car parked on a bridge. Under the bridge is a stream with a small waterfall. Two women are sta...
Photograph

Bear Trap Falls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of people at Bear Trap Falls in the Wolf River near Keshena. People are standing on the shoreline on the left near a sign for the falls. A man is sta...
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Road Repairs Crew with D-40 Truck

Date: 06 29 1937
Description: An International D-40 truck used by the Brennan Paving Company is parked in a paved lot in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, while a group of men work in the...
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Falls at Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in the foreground, and a man and woman sit on a log over the stream in the background at the Parfrey's Glen waterfall near Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Stairway at Caldeno Falls

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Description: A couple walking down the rustic stairway at Caldeno Falls. Caption reads: "Caldeno Falls, Delaware Water Gap, PA."
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Two Men on Top of Stagecoach

Date: 1910
Description: A rear view of two men atop a stagecoach as it winds through the Twin Falls, Idaho, home of the Snake River Canyon. A waterfall is in the background on the...
Photograph

Portrait of Man and Women at Waterfall and Old Mill

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Description: A portrait of two women and one man who are sitting on rocks near the waterfall. There is an old mill above them on the right.
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Portaging at Curtain Falls

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Description: View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson.
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Trout Fishing At The Foot Of The Falls

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Description: A man fishes for trout at the foot of a waterfall.
Photograph

Niagara Falls from Canada Side - Anaglyph

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of "Two different views of the Falls from Canada side," from the series "Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge" as mentioned in Dahl's 1877 "Cata...
Photograph

Cable Car Over Niagara Falls

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Description: Passengers aboard a cable car prepare for their trip over Niagara Falls.
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Cable Car Over Niagara Falls

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Description: Passengers aboard a cable car begin their trip across Niagara Falls.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 507-513

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Description: We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the...
Print

Niagara Falls

Date: 1698
Description: An illustration of two men looking out at Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls in Jean Louis Hennepin’s A new discovery of a vast country in America (London: M...
Photograph

Group of People on Footbridge

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Description: View from shoreline towards a man and woman posed standing on a footbridge over a small waterfall. On the right a woman sits with a child in her lap on the...
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Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water of Big Bull Falls or the Wisconsin River rapidly flows underneath two railroad bridges. Pedestrians cross the bridges while peering over at the over...

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