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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
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| Description: | Luggage tag for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. This label includes a graph rendering of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building, and is thought to ha... |
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| Description: | Illustration labelled "Banquet Entrance (Rear of the Hotel) from brochure about the Imperial Hotel (see ID#32422, 32451-2, and 32454) |
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| Description: | Page from the brochure labelled "A Part of Banquet." |
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| Description: | Page from the brochure entitled "Gold Fish Pond." |
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| Description: | Illustration of a bedroom at the Imperial Hotel. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Image of a man seated at a desk reading a Western Union telegram informing him that he has won $200,000 in a lottery. Text reads, "Everyone is born to a ch... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of John Gould Anthony (1804-1877), head of the Conchology department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1863 until his deat... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead (1799-1880), Illinois-based physician and botanist. Mead, a pioneer in both the fields of medicine and b... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait, with accompanying obituary entry, of Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), American soldier, explorer, and geologist. Best known ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Daniel Steele Durrie (1819-1892), American librarian. Durrie served as the librarian for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now the Wi... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of th... |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William W. Mather (1804-1859), geologist and U.S. Army officer. Ohio's first state geologist. Capti... |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of John Wells Foster (1815-1873, American geologist and paleontologist. In 1837, worked as assistant to the Geol... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr... |
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| Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i... |
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