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Book or Pamphlet

Elevators at Fort William

Date: 
Description: Illustration of exterior view of elevators at Fort William.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl...
Book or Pamphlet

Pictographs On Lake Superior And Carp River

Date: 1851
Description: Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols.
Book or Pamphlet

Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

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Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing...
Book or Pamphlet

Buffalo Pitts Threshers Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buffalo Pitts threshers sold by International Harvester. The cover features an illustration of four buffalo standing ne...
Book or Pamphlet

Cotton King Disk Harrow Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows. Includes an illustration of a steamboat on the water, and cotton plants.
Book or Pamphlet

River Scene

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of steamboat in the distance on a river (possibly the Wisconsin River).
Book or Pamphlet

Lock and Dam

Date: 1903
Description: Lock and dam system on a canal along the Mississippi River.
Book or Pamphlet

Lost Camera Sign

Date: 1903
Description: Sign posted on a fence announcing a lost camera near the town of Prairie du Sac and requesting its return to Herbert Fowler.
Book or Pamphlet

Canoeists

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of two men rowing a boat.
Book or Pamphlet

Las Isletas-Falls of Presidio de Rio Grande

Date: 1857
Description: An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande.
Book or Pamphlet

Falls of Kettle River

Date: 
Description: Depiction of the fall of Kettle River including a rock formation in the river and surrounding landscape filled with trees.
Book or Pamphlet

Bird's-Eye View of the Paine Lumber Company

Date: 1902
Description: Two panoramic bird's-eye views of the Paine Lumber Company, including the general plant, sawmill, and lumber yards. Heading at the top says: Home of Wiscon...
Book or Pamphlet

International's New Manhattan Branch

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of a brochure celebrating a new International Harvester Manhattan branch, featuring an aerial photograph of Manhattan, including the corner of West 4...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of a McCormick-Deering brochure featuring corn shellers, feed grinders, hammer and roughage mills.
Book or Pamphlet

Annual Report

Date: 1966
Description: Front cover of the International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a color photograph of a semi-truck navigating a road through the Rocky Mounta...
Book or Pamphlet

James Expedition Map

Date: 02 1823
Description: A map featuring the North American expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Edwin James.

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