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McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Photograph

Cabin at St. Mary's Lake

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Description: Norris' flat at Upper St. Mary's Lake, with men standing in front of the cabin.
Drawing

Wilkins 46: Descent of Bear River Mountains

Date: 08 01 1849
Description: Bear Valley in Utah with a wagon train descending the mountains. sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Tra...
Photograph

Tschirren Family Having Lunch in the Field

Date: 1958
Description: Men, women, and children of the Tschirren family having lunch on a wagon in their field. The Tschirrens had a farm in Niedermuhlern, Switzerland.
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Photograph

Vaseaux Lake

Date: 1909
Description: Children standing on horses' backs posing for the photograph, alongside of a wagon, and other horseback riders, on the shore of Vaseaux Lake. Caption reads...
Photograph

Bear Town Mountain

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Description: Bear Town Mountain from Cherry Hill. A man and a horse-drawn wagon are posing near homes that are scattered through the valley setting.
Photograph

Ox Team

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Description: View uphill of a team of oxen with a wagon stacked with lumber. In the background, men gather outside a general store located in the Raton Mountains, betwe...
Photograph

Costa Rican Family

Date: 1902
Description: A Costa Rican family standing outside their home or farm building along a fence. A pig stands in the foreground with a board tied around its neck sniffing ...
Photograph

Scout with Trailer Camper and Covered Wagons

Date: 1978
Description: Scout and a Coachmen pop up camping trailer parked in a field in a valley. A row of covered wagons are behind the Scout and the camping trailer. In the bac...
Photograph

Street View of Cape Town

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated street view of Cape Town, South Africa. Wagons, cars, people, and animals can be seen in the streets, and mountains in the background.
Photograph

Harvesting Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across field towards men harvesting in a field near large haystacks. In the background is a mountain village at the lower level of a mountain...
Photograph

"Resurrection" Publicity Still

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Description: Prince Dimitri (Rod La Rocque) standing on a wagon of hay drawn by a horse. Katusha Maslova (Delores del Rio) is sitting on top of the hay. The still is fr...
Photograph

Medical Unit

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Description: German medical unit column passing through a village. Snow-covered mountains are in the background.
Photograph

Austrian Supply Column

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops and supply wagons resting in the vicinity of the Uzsok Pass.
Photograph

Artillery by the Uzsok Pass

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Description: For some time now German and Austrian troops have been fighting jointly against the Russians. The German artillery is parked in the vicinity of the Uzsok P...
Photograph

Artillery by the Uzsok Pass

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Description: For some time now German and Austrian troops have been fighting jointly against the Russians. The German artillery is parked in the vicinity of the Uzsok P...
Photograph

Soldiers and Field Artillery Wagons

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Description: German soldiers conversing with their Austrian brothers-in-arms in front of a roadside calvary.
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Austrian Wagons on the Way to the Front

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Description: Austrian supply wagons on the way to the Dukla Pass in the Carpathians.
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Turkish Troops at Rest

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Description: Troops resting in front of an inn in the Taurus Mountains.

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