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Earhart Endorsement

Date: 1928
Description: A newspaper advertisement prepared by the Foote, Cone and Belding agency for the American Tobacco Co. The ad features a product endorsement for Lucky Stri...
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
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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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Dairymaid Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1913
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Dairymaid line of cream separators showing a woman with her hand on a gate and a pail over he...
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Fire Company Invitation

Date: 02 04 1864
Description: Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman...
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North American Indians

Date: 1844
Description: Portrait of North American Indians (Plate 1).

"The group in Plate No. 1 is composed of three Portraits from my collection, representing three different t...

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Ball-Play Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22).

"As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th...

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Horlick's Food Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho...
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How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
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Columbus Departs Spain

Date: 1655
Description: Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492.
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A Woman of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 39. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 42. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Woman of Prince William's Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 47. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Woman of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 49. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House, in Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 58. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Woman Peeling Potatoes in front of TV

Date: 1956
Description: "All To Myself" brochure for the NBC Matinee Theater with a woman sitting front of the television peeling potatoes with her shoes off. There is an outline ...
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"A Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Squaw, wife of O'-check-ka or Four Legs"

Date: 1835
Description: A Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Squaw, wife of O'-check-ka (Four Legs). Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Green Bay (1...
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Ta-ma-kake-toke

Date: 1835
Description: Ta-ma-kake-toke, or the Woman that Spoke First, a mourning Chippeway (Ojibwa) Squaw. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the...
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International Harvester Decorator Refrigerator

Date: 1953
Description: Advertising brochure with an image of a woman covering an International Harvester Decorator refrigerator while another woman looks on. The refrigerator is ...

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