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| Date: | 03 20 1977 |
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| Description: | A mural painted on the side of the Red Caboose Day Care Center at 654 Williamson Street. Images in the mural include children playing, grasshoppers, a turt... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant grasshopper lifting an anchored basket with a baby girl inside. The rope tethered to the basket has a large American flag attached ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis as a spider traps flies in his web. The web appears to be attached to the Union flag. He has a skull and crossbones on his back and blood d... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Ornaments from a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. These were combined with the "folders" (cards) and paper lace to create personalized Valentine's Day c... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Valentine created using a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. The "folder" (card) has a house in the country surrounded by flowers. Over that paper lace is... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Promotional advertisement available through the International Harvester Advertising Service for use by International Harvester dealers, part of the 1949 Tw... |
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| Description: | Print of seven insects and one mammal with human faces. Scientific names printed beneath each image. "Melanoplus differentialis" grasshopper, "Eurypelma he... |
| Date: | 09 07 |
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| Description: | One-page dinner menu for L'Etoile Restaurant and Café, with a handwritten menu listing and illustrations of encircled five-point interlaced stars, birds, b... |
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| Description: | Menu template for L'Etoile Restaurant and Café, with illustrations at the bottom of the page of encircled five-point interlaced stars, butterflied, birds, ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large trout surrounded by a variety of insects, a fishing reel, and a fishing lure. This drawing appeared in the Wi... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols. |
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| Description: | Graphic design of a termite with a boring tool for its nose and a bottle jutting out of its head. The text reads: "The Turret Termite, It usually bites wor... |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: a cigar-smoking fisherman holding a broken rod; a young Nancy Ryan with one leg propped on a ... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a fisherman standing on one leg and holding with an outstretched arm a fish on a string in one hand, and a bottle of alcohol in his left hand. H... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
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