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Hay Loading

Date: 1920
Description: A farmer uses a pitchfork to load hay onto a wagon pulled by a Cletrac crawler tractor. The caption reads: "Hay loading. The Cletrac needs no time out on t...
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McCormick Celebration Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 25 1931
Description: Luncheon menu and program from a McCormick Celebration at Washington and Lee University, with an etching of a three-quarter view of Cyrus McCormick's first...
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Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
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Cant Hook Man

Date: 04 1937
Description: Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background.
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Truax Army Field Station Hospital Christmas Menu

Date: 12 25 1942
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Christmas booklet from Truax Army Air Field, with a pinned-up drawing of a turkey perched on one leg on a butcher block ta...
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Advertising Trade Sample Card Bee Keeping

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Description: A colored illustration, featuring in the center a young girl standing by a modern bee hive and holding a smoker in her left hand. Her right hand is resting...
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National Peace Jubilee Banquet Menu

Date: 10 19 1898
Description: Front cover, first illustration, and menu page for the "National Peace Jubilee Banquet tendered to The President of the United States and distinguished gue...
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Fox and Hounds Restaurant Dinner Menu

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Description: Front cover, bar menu, and trifold overleaf illustration from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant. On the cover is an illustration of the restaurant's wooden pla...
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Woman with Two Jersey Cows

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Description: An illustration of two jersey cows and a woman holding a milking pail. Text at bottom reads: Two Jersey Cows — Beauty and Jersey — The Property of the Illi...
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Morley-Murphy Hdw. Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Morley-Murphy Hardware Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building and horse, streetcar, and rail traffic around it.
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Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
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Ovens of Brittany Lunch and Dinner Menu

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Description: Front cover and interior of menu for the Ovens of Brittany bakery and restaurant on Monroe Street. Features illustrations of a jar of utensils, bread, chee...
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Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

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Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in green on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside graphic is a line-drawing cartoon of an ice fisherm...
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Mining Operation

Date: 1839
Description: Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working.
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Seal of Indiana Letterhead

Date: 12 22 1861
Description: Letterhead with the seal of Indiana. The seal has a star spangled border with red stripes. Inside the seal is a circular landscape scene of a man chopping ...
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Wisconsin Coat of Arms

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Description: 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin.

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