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| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin high school student Jeffrey Mattox is shown playing a game of tic-tac-toe against the machine he constructed. A screen shows the squares, and a m... |
| Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advertisement with illustrations on the progress of the International Harvester company. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Illustration on cover of a book written about the history of the typewriter covering 1873-1923. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Standing, three-quarter length portrait of Edward J. Carlier (1893-1954) posing with an elbow resting on tires and a pencil and papers in his hands. Establ... |
| Date: | 02 18 1955 |
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| Description: | A man posing indoors with a drawn bow. He has a quiver with additional arrows affixed to his arm. Caption reads: "ACCLAIMED BY ARCHERS is this arm q... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertisement sheet, with a front page that reads: "International Harvester Celebrates The Invention of the Reaper". The color illu... |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of inventor Oscar Zerk with his hand on his chin. |
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