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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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A colorful pictorial map of Australia, featured on the front and back cover of a special Australian edition of International Trail. |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of three TBF's (all above the horizon) and eleven SBD's, which participated in Pacific Fleet's carrier-strike against Japan's bases in the Pala... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a developed strip of land on Barnegat Bay showing the Atlantic ocean, houses, lakes, railroad tracks, a marina and a jetty in the distance. |
| 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: | 10 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64) in San Francisco Bay. Several boats can be seen in the water near the ship and San Francisco is visible in t... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view lithograph of Key West with ships and smaller boats in the surrounding waters. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the island of Cuba taken from a small plane. Part of the plane with a Cuban flag painted on it is in the frame, and the island with many bui... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Map of the barley-growing regions of North America, published by the Rahr Malting Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1952. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 11 26 1898 |
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| Description: | Menu for a "Banquet tendered by the Union Iron Works to the Delegation from the Badger State" given at the Palace Hotel, with an etching of the Battleship ... |
| Date: | 02 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the menu and program for the Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN... |
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