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| Date: | 10 02 1884 |
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| Description: | Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Presidential campaign photo of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. standing up in the back of a convertible automobile with an American flag behind him. Two signs i... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The fireplace in the living room of the Edward Petersen house features a classical revival surround and mantel. A small stuffed toy dog sits under a carved... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the lounge of the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 06 19 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over fence of the McCormick Works Club House. There are tennis courts in the left foreground. A man is standing at the door of the club on th... |
| Date: | 02 26 1928 |
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| Description: | Six scenes of miniature landscapes and interiors comprise a tablescape honoring six decades in the life of Emma Seipp Schmidt on the occasion of her sixtie... |
| Date: | 02 26 1928 |
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| Description: | Six scenes of miniature landscapes and interiors comprise a tablescape honoring six decades in the life of Emma Seipp Schmidt on the occasion of her sixtie... |
| Date: | 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a mechanical rotating Christmas tree stand which has been elevated and incorporated into a winter scene. The key to wind the mechanism is ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Edward Petersen at home, wearing a smoking jacket with quilted collar and cuffs. He is sitting in a wide doorway, hanging with tasseled draperies, holding ... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Embossed image of the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress International Exposition (the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair) decorates the leather cover of... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Tickertape parade in a city. There appear to be people standing on the edge of the roof of the building in the center, standing near the base of a flagpole... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | One-page tea room menu from the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. At the top is an illustration of a gondolier steering a couple in a c... |
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| Description: | The Crystal House was Keck and Keck Project #183 in 1934. This project was done for the second year of the Chicago World's Fair, named "The Century of Prog... |
| Date: | 08 01 1927 |
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| Description: | The truck is decorated with plants and flowers, and the sign on the side reads: "International Motor Trucks," at the Am Foundrymen's 31st Annual Convention... |
| Date: | 08 01 1927 |
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| Description: | The truck is decorated with plants and flowers, and the sign on the side reads: "International Motor Trucks," at the Am Foundrymen's 31st Annual Convention... |
| Date: | 12 27 1927 |
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| Description: | Farm machinery toys set up on white paper on a floor. There are tractors, trucks, a thresher and a horse-drawn wagons. |
| Date: | 09 21 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a fleet of trucks for the Great Northern Laundry lined up for a parade. Men are sitting in the driver's seat of each truck which are parked at... |
| Date: | 09 21 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street toward a fleet of trucks lined up for a parade. An International Harvester Motor Trucks is decorated, and two other trucks have a sign f... |
| Date: | 09 1939 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin float in the 1939 American Legion Convention parade features a log cabin and a boat and is decorated with small evergreen trees and boughs. T... |
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