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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog with the title: "The Kirby Mower and Reaper." The "K" and "Y" letters of Kirby are drawn as shocks of wheat, and the "IRB" letters a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with gold and black ink illustrations. In the center a woman standing on a globe of the earth carries a sheaf of wheat on her shoulder and a ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the Saint Paul harvester and cord binder, manufactured by the Saint Paul Harvester Works. The cover features a chromol... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brochure for the Paris Exposition with text in French. Two inside spreads show a man on the left using a team of two horses to pull a harvesting machine in... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Czechoslovakian film poster for the Polish film "Pingwin." Close-up image mostly illustrated in black of a woman's face and her flipped up hair. A yellow b... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Flat sculpture or sign of a monarch butterfly attached to the side of a brick wall. Leaves are hanging from branches of a tree from the upper right and par... |
| 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: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Elaborate pen-and-ink drawing of two fisherman at night sitting in a small motorboat (named PAM) on a lake. Large trout are looming over their heads with a... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from across a stream towards a cigar-smoking fisherman (probably Sid Boyum) on the opposite side of the bank. He ... |
| 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: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capital Times on May 3, 1986 with Sid's caption: "Before fish, all men are created equal. Fish,... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a... |
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| Description: | View from front of a man on a motorcycle squirting fuel oil into a sewer opening at a curb to control mosquitoes. The motorcycle has an oil tank attached l... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a peony blossom in the sunshine. |
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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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