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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Photograph

Friedrich Holdmann on Horseback

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Description: Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background.
Photograph

"The Warrior And His Bride"

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
Photograph

Otoe Police

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Description: Otoe Indian police on horseback.
Print

Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 1863
Description: "Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Regiments." Lithograph of the 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on Parade at Camp Bragg (now Menom...
Print

Heroes of the Civil War

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Description: "Heroes of the Civil War". Engraving of eight Union leaders with decorative battlefield scenes.
Print

Racine Civil War Veterans

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Description: "Civil War Day Pictures of Racine Veterans." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits of veterans of the Civil War, consisting of 100 Union sol...
Photograph

Native American on Horse

Date: 1902
Description: Portrait of Native American on horseback. A similar photograph that appeared in the Williston Press, January 11, 1951, dated it as 1902.
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Man and Horse

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors...
Photograph

Cowboys Outside of Their Cabin

Date: 1905
Description: A view of cowboys posing outside of their log cabin dwelling. Three stand against the wall, while four sit. The sitter on the right has a banjo. In the lef...
Poster

Military Memorial Poster

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Description: Commemorative poster honoring duties of the States and those that fought and lead the war.
Historical Object

Society of the Army of the Tennessee

Date: 07 10 1872
Description: A certificate admitting Colonel George E. Bryant to become a member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
Photograph

Horseback Portrait of General Robert E. Lee

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Description: Copy of a painting of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) on his horse, Traveller. The original painting was found in Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Poster

The War Of 1917. Dedicated To The Brave Men Who Answered The Nation's Call.

Date: 1917
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry, who died during the war. Text reads: "Company 6, First Wisconsin Infantry . . . Bor...

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