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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
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| Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of E. Harwood, Dr. William Brisbane, and Levi Coffin, sitting in a row. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). This portrait was reportedly a favorite of his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chic... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Photographic reprint of a daguerreotype of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commer... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | View of worker with a grey beard and hat standing and posing in front of a furnace inside IHC McCormick Works foundry. |
| Date: | 12 1928 |
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| Description: | International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s... |
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