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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| 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: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
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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: | Actors portraying I.M. Singer and his friend George Zieber with the first sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Actors portray I.M. Singer and George Zieber examining an early sewing machine. |
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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, ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ... |
| Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors." |
| Date: | 11 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Inventors copyright drawing with signatures of inventors Paul Kane, and G.A. Hagadone. Dated Dec. 14th, 1912. |
| Date: | 03 08 1913 |
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| Description: | Inventors copyright drawing. Dated March 4, 1913. |
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| Description: | "Great American Inventors," copy of engraving for Harper's. |
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| Description: | Detail of "Great American Inventors," showing Cyrus Hall McCormick. Copy of engraving for Harper's. |
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| Description: | Inventor Oscar Zerk is leaning over his drafting table as he works on a design. |
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| Description: | An exhibit of petrified wood sections and other objects on tables and display cases in the Zerk Museum. Paintings, photographs, jewelry and other objects a... |
| Date: | 08 02 1879 |
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| Description: | A drawing of Thomas Edison seated at a desk working on an experiment. Caption at bottom reads: "Edison In His Workshop." |
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