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Carte Universelle du Monde Vulgairement dite la Mappemonde: Avec de Nouvelles Observations Touchant les Navigations de Long Cours Par P. Du-Val. Amerique Septemtrionale

Date: 1684
Description: Map of North America showing some colonies, cities, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Ship routes spread across both oceans, including one decorated...
Map or Atlas

North America: Corrected from the Observation Communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris

Date: 1710
Description: Map of North America showing the European claims, Native American land and villages, rivers, lakes, cities, and notes on explorers, discoveries, and topogr...
Map or Atlas

Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St. Laurence

Date: 1759
Description: Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusua...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Evening Record" Page Two

Date: 03 15 1896
Description: Page two of the "Evening Record." The handwritten newspaper includes several hand-drawn illustrations. On the top center of the page, one illustration port...
Photograph

Pumpkins at Farm Stand

Date: 1967
Description: Pumpkins, gourds and Indian corn on display at a farm stand. A womand and two children are standing near a man who is weighing produce on a scale under a r...
Photograph

Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the...
Photograph

Industrial Tractors at Weigh Station

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain, which is sitting on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small bu...
Photograph

Birge and Juday

Date: 1925
Description: Limnologist Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Professor Chauncey Juday posing together outdoors at what is probably the lake research laboratory in Trout Lake.
Photograph

Sturgeon

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Description: Two men are helping to hold down a sturgeon on the side of a boat as a third man tags the dorsal fin.
Photograph

Northern Pike Spawn Collection

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Description: Two men are collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other is sitting in a chair with a conta...
Photograph

Collecting Northern Pike Spawn

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Description: Close-up view of two men collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other man is sitting in a c...
Photograph

Examining PCB Levels in the Sheboygan River

Date: 10 1978
Description: Two men are standing on the rocky shoreline of the Sheboygan River. One man is holding a shovel in his right hand and a glass jar in his left hand. The oth...
Photograph

Examining PCB Pollution in Soil

Date: 10 1978
Description: Two men are kneeling on the ground. One man is holding a shovel while the other man is scooping dirt from the shovel into a glass jar. They are measuring P...
Photograph

Experimental Disk Harrow

Date: 07 11 1924
Description: Right side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling an experimental weighted disk harrow. Buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Scale Room

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Description: Slightly elevated view of Oscar Mayer employees, men and women, wearing lab coats and hats who are weighing packaged meet on a variety of scales in a large...
Photograph

Women Packaging Yellow Band Wieners

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women standing near a conveyor belt and racks of wieners. They are wearing long coats and hats, and are labeling and packing...
Photograph

Flour Distribution in Hebron

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Description: Distributing flour to troops in Hebron.
Photograph

Sarajevo Market

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Description: Sarajevo vegetable seller.
Photograph

Man Working in Creamery

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Description: A man is weighing milk and taking a sample for testing in acid in butter fat, creamery, East Aurora, N.Y.., U.S.A." Lantern slide.
Photograph

Ed Gein Arriving at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue, for lie detector and other tests.

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