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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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States from 1837-1841. Born on December 5, 1782 in Columbia, New York, ... |
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| Description: | A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwa... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Ellis B. Usher, editor and prominent Wisconsin Democrat, from the frontispiece of his multi-volume history of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | The front side of an advertising card showing a farmer reaching over a fence for a McCormick machine. There is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick on the fence a... |
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| Description: | Lithographic print of portrait of Francis Scott Key. In the background is the sheet music for the Star Spangled Banner, and an American flag. |
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| Description: | Oval head and shoulders vignetted portrait of Increase A. Lapham. |
| Date: | 12 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra... |
| Date: | 02 25 1926 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from the booklet printed for the Forty-ninth Annual Dinner of the American Paper and Pulp Association at the Waldorf Astoria H... |
| Date: | 11 23 2006 |
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| Description: | One-page menu for a five-course Thanksgiving dinner at The Beard House prepared by L’Etoile, with the restaurant logo and a background head and shoulders i... |
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| Description: | Color portrait of James Oliver pasted onto a card. "When I sell a plow, I make a friend." |
| Date: | 12 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu from a dinner honoring Orville Wright, on the fortieth anniversary of the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright from Kitty Hawk, ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, halftone printed, studio portrait of Gilbert M. Woodward. Woodward served as a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from 1883 ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Irma Harding, a fictitious person. This portrait was painted for International Harvester Company to be used by International... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Gate fold front covers and interior of dinner menu from The Backstage, with a line drawing of film actors Greta Garbo and John Gilbert on the front cover p... |
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