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Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
Photograph

DDT Application

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Description: Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water.
Photograph

Man Spraying for Mosquitoes

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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.
Postcard

Cecropia Moth

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard of a cecropoia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. Caption reads: "Cecropia Moth."
Photograph

Cecropia Moth

Date: 1905
Description: A cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium.
Postcard

Cecropia Moth

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard of a profile view of a cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. Caption reads: "Cecropia Moth."
Photograph

Cecropia Moth

Date: 1905
Description: A profile view of a cecropia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium.
Photograph

Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant and Café Dinner Menu

Date: 09 07
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...
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant and Café Menu Template

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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, ...
Book or Pamphlet

St. Paul Harvester Works Catalog Cover

Date: 1881
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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1969
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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1970
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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1973
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics

Date: 1851
Description: Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols.
Drawing

Drawing of Insect in Garden

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Description: Imaginative insect crouched in a fantastical garden among flowers and plants.
Photograph

Collecting Helgramites

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Description: A man wearing hip waders is standing in wetlands holding a collecting screen. He is collecting helgramites (a type of insect larva) to be used as bait for ...

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