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| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering miniature models produced by Arcade Toys. Includes illustrations of a toy tractor, plow, and wagon drawn by horses... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Dealer "mailing folder" promoting the sale of toys and the free distribution of novelties through the company's dealerships. Includes color illustrations o... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Sandlot baseball game in front of a house and several outbuildings, all in dilapidated condition. |
| Date: | 10 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Depicts eight young men and women playing an outdoor game of pussy wants a corner. |
| Date: | 10 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Depicts a group comprised mostly of women posed in a variety of stances as if to begin a race. The image carries the hand-lettered caption "Each one progr... |
| Date: | 10 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Five young women walking across a field. The hand-lettered caption reads: "The hiker's stride." |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wooden boats at Raspberry Island (or Devils Island) dock with picnickers on shore. The "Lizzie W' and Nelson Angus, A.G. Hull, Elsie Tough... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Champion brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements, including a larger col... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Mary Baldwin (Duluth), John Neimeyer (Duluth), and the bow of the "Zenya." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Leo W. Capser and Margaret Glover (Mrs. Andrews) lounging on the grass in the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Beach fishing camp showing several people around a fire drying fish with a tent in the background. Captioned: Ottawa Fishing Camp -- On the Island at Fran... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A man and three boys in swimming suits at the beach. Presumably, Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A family campsite with a woman and three boys standing next to a canvass wall tent. In front of the tent is a campfire with pots, and a log with a hatchet ... |
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| Description: | Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch. |
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| Description: | Five children play in the yard while a young woman watches from the doorway. A boy hangs from a cross bar; a boy rides a rocking horse; two girls sit on a ... |
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