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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet, printed in German, advertising land for sale in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Chinese advertising calendar produced for the International Harvester Export Company. Features color illustrations of Chinese and American flags, dragons, ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising calendar for Deering farm machinery featuring color illustration of a street in a French town with people looking on as a man puts up a "Deerin... |
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| Description: | A cross with the inscription "Morts Pour La Patrie." Captioned "Dead for the Country," a familiar sign in the valley of the Marne. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I... |
| Date: | 04 23 1906 |
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| Description: | Grain binder on the floor of an IH factory, probably the McCormick Works. At the top is a directional sign for employees in three different languages; Czec... |
| Date: | 1570 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece for Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570, and considered the first modern atlas. Title is surrounded by four figures r... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
| Date: | 1798 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Egypt. Map title appears on bottom left as a carving in stone next ... |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of Guey Sam menu, with the name of the restaurant in a red heart (characters) and a column-shaped decorative field (English... |
| Date: | 08 09 1906 |
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| Description: | Inside pages of a tattered bound document written in German, with handwritten notes filling in blanks on the left page, and handwriting near a stamp on the... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Page describing in German the International 624 tractor, lifting an elephant. The tractor is owned by the Bouglione Circus. |
| Date: | 02 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks with sacks piled in the trucks beds. The signs painted on the trucks are in Russian. |
| Date: | 1608 |
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| Description: | Illustraiton, with alphabetical key in French, of the Habitation of Quebec, a conglomeration of connected buildings on the banks of the St. Lawrence River ... |
| Date: | 05 13 1929 |
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| Description: | Chinese flour sack with a design of a man driving a tractor. The text at the top reads: "Koshan Kean Kwei Flour Mill." |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Tidy materials storage area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. There is a brick arch in the foreground, and across the room is another ar... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Tidy materials storage area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. Lumber is stacked along the left and right, and an arched doorway leading ... |
| Date: | 10 15 1906 |
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| Description: | Manufacturing area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. |
| Date: | 08 1907 |
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| Description: | Work area, with metal machines, and a fire escape sign in three languages at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 09 03 1912 |
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| Description: | View towards a Reaper outdoors in the yard, set up on a saw-horse. There is a Russian name on the Reaper. In the background is a brick factory building. |
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