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Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...
Photograph

James Dwight Dana, Geologist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), American minerologist, geologist, and zoologist. He is best known for his discoveries of mountai...
Photograph

Fielding B. Meek, Paleontologist

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist...
Photograph

Charles Christopher Parry, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Ro...
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

Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp...
Print

Christmas Greetings from the Bryntesons

Date: 1970
Description: Photo holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Four portraits show the various members of the family, including a dog.
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San...
Print

Re-elect Michael Lombardi

Date: 1954
Description: A handout urging citizens to re-elect Republican candidate Michael Lombardi for Sheriff of Waukesha County. He was re-elected, and served the statutory lim...
Photograph

Bicycle Safety Week King and Queen

Date: 06 17 1960
Description: King John Thacher and Queen Dianne Bystol posing while wearing crowns and capes. They were winners of the slogan contest.
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant Taliesin Reception Menu

Date: 06 30 1999
Description: Menu for a reception at L'Etoile Restaurant for the School of Organic Farming and Cooking at Taliesin, with the school logo and a background photograph of ...
Photograph

Trump Supporter

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Profile of a man wearing a camouflage baseball cap, sunglasses, and sweatshirt. He has a beard and mustache. He is wearing a button on his cap that is deco...
Photograph

Man in Costume Selling Donald Trump Merchandise

Date: 08 16 2016
Description: A man is posing outdoors in front of a display of his merchandise in a parking lot. He is smiling and giving a thumbs up, and is wearing a white suit jacke...
Postcard

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 
Description: A presidential political campaign postcard with an aerial view of Rancho Del Cielo, or "The Western White House." In the upper left corner is a head and sh...

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