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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a "reaper used by ancient Gauls, First Century." The "reaper" is frame... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Back cover illustration for a William Deering and Company catalog. Deering was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery. The illustration includes an engra... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the role of science in society. Features a butterfly, and a hand holding a flower, with text filling the interior of the design. |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Man showing pest damage to a tree. Original caption reads: "Showing where tree had been girdled by pitch moth larvae, and later grew larger above and below... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with flowers and butterflies. Caption reads: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Chromolithograph. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a cecropoia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. Caption reads: "Cecropia Moth." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a profile view of a cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. Caption reads: "Cecropia Moth." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A profile view of a cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with four die cut pieces held together with two cords. The top piece is a girl wearing a lavender dress and ballet slippers. She is ho... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with three layers. The bottom layer is a large blue and white butterfly, and in the lower right is glued a banner with the text: "Cupi... |
| 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: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with tan fringe and tasseled cords. A border of white daisies surrounds a smaller zig-zag border. Inside the border is the text "St. V... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 09 1887 |
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| Description: | Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed illustration of a spider in her ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the Steamer Japan of the Lake Superior Transit Company, with a panel including a stalk of bamboo, a dragonfly, and a butterfly, and... |
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