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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Describes the amenities aboard the "North American" and "South American". |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis and six sailors sail in a tea cup. A pirate flag flies overhead. One sailor is in the "crow's nest." Another is using a paddle. Three sailo... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three couples of animals dancing; two bears, a seal and a beaver, a fox and a rabbit. They are on a snowbank overlooking the sea with the... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter... |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a truck and the United States, largely in red, white and blue. Includes the te... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Ocean Spray brand of cranberries, with a can of jellied cranberry sauce and a serving dish with the sauce retaining the shape of its can ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Map of the Middle East accompanying an article on International's involvement in building the Iraq Pipe Line. Headline text on the page reads: "Internation... |
| Date: | 03 21 1901 |
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| Description: | Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d... |
| Date: | 03 23 1901 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop... |
| Date: | 09 18 1908 |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai... |
| Date: | 09 20 1908 |
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| Description: | Farewell dinner menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a man, a woman, and a child in Dutch clothing on a boat, facing away to look at an approaching sh... |
| Date: | 11 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing for the farewell dinner aboard the S.S. Resolute of the United American Lines. On the cover is a three-quarter view of ... |
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