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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from Goodrich Steamship Lines schedule, with a picture of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel against the Chicago skyline and a beach scene in th... |
| Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene on Hispaniola in 1500, when Columbus was forced to return to Spain after a new adminstrator had arrived. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage, 1502-1504. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from the Laudonnière Expedition in South Carolina, ca. 1564. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Drake Expedition near Rio de la Plata, Brazil, ca. 1578. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Drake Expedition on coast of California, ca. 1579. Francis Drake on the Coast of New Albion, California. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1610. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Jamestown Settlement in which the brothers of Pocahontas visit her. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614. The Chickahominy tribe's proximity to Jamestown meant they had early contact with the English.... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1615. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A white sailor and a Native American man are sitting on the ground near the water, with ships in the distance. The colonist is holding a sextant in his lef... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| 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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| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
| Date: | 04 1884 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American... |
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