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View of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin

Date: 1855
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855."
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Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
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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...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
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View of Madison, the Capital of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1854
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853

Date: 1937
Description: Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel...
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Foreign Missions Receipt

Date: 1856
Description: Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the...
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The Moaning of the Tied

Date: 1860
Description: A howling dog tied to a post, with an empty food dish in front of him. Water is in the background with a sailing ship, probably from the blockade. Text abo...
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The Union Armada

Date: 1860
Description: A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i...
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Oshkosh Packing & Provision Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w...
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Red Star Line Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Louis Auer & Son, Milwaukee passenger agents for the Red Star Line, with a bearded man in a cap and uniform steering a ship's wheel. The name...
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Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 18 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai...
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Red Star Line Dinner Menu

Date: 09 20 1908
Description: Farewell dinner menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a man, a woman, and a child in Dutch clothing on a boat, facing away to look at an approaching sh...
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Menu for Captain's Dinner on Board S.S. Pastores

Date: 12 03 1920
Description: Menu for Captain's Dinner on board the S.S. Pastores, of the United Fruit Company Steamship Service, carrying President-Elect Warren G. Harding. On ...
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Menu for Farewell Dinner on Board R.M.S. Volendam

Date: 01 22 1939
Description: Exterior and page from the interior of the menu for the farewell dinner aboard the R.M.S. Volendam, with party streamers and dinner guests in formal...
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Menu for Farewell Dinner on Board S.S. Resolute

Date: 11 06 1923
Description: Front cover and menu listing for the farewell dinner aboard the S.S. Resolute of the United American Lines. On the cover is a three-quarter view of ...
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Menu Cover for Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Mr. Trygve Lie

Date: 02 02 1951
Description: Front cover of the menu and program for the Fifth Anniversary of the Secretary-Generalship of Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN...
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Souvenir Menu for Dinner for Kletzsch, Ott, and Kremer

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: First and last pages of the souvenir menu for a dinner by Mr. Edward A. Uhrig to Mr. Alvin P. Kletzsch, Mr. Emil H. Ott, and Mr. Waldemar Kremer at Republi...
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Hotel St. Catherine Dinner Menu

Date: 07 21 1925
Description: Dinner menu from the Hotel St. Catherine, with a color postcard at the top, meant to be detached and mailed, with a view of the hotel against a backdrop of...

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