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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
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...
Photograph

"Greetings from Newport, RI"

Date: 1898
Description: A woman in a bathing suit stands on the beach and holds what appears to be a seashell. The ocean is in the background. This woman is contained within a she...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Shoreline of El Montecito, California

Date: 1899
Description: A map showing the shoreline of a portion of El Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. The map shows properties along the Pacific Ocean, and may have ...
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Menu for Union Iron Works Banquet for Wisconsin Delegates

Date: 11 26 1898
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 ...
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R.M.S.S. Magdalena Dinner Menu

Date: 08 09 1890
Description: One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — October and November

Date: 1893
Description: 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — January

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar front, with the month of January, 1893. At the top it reads: "1893 calendar presented to the farmers of the world with the compliments of Aultman,...
Map or Atlas

Rand McNally & Co.'s New 14 x 21 Map of the World

Date: 1895
Description: Map showing the continents of the world with the Americas at the center. From left to right land masses names are: "Siberia, Chinese Empire, Australia, Nor...
Photograph

Frederick Layton at Sea

Date: 1891
Description: Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's...
Photograph

Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Date: 1897
Description: Circular-framed view across a body of water. Two wood pilings are in the right foreground, and a boat is out on the water. Hills are along the far shorelin...

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