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| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Tom Langlois in a rowboat is issuing a warning to James Bergman who is swimming outside the ropes that delineate the safe swimming area. |
| Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
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| Description: | Henry Hamilton Bennett stands with his camera on a platform. He built the platform in order to take photographs of passengers in the boats that toured the ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Buckstaff-Edwards Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, manufacturers of coffins and caskets and wholesale dealers in caskets and undertaking supp... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Northwestern Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, manufacturer of "Lath Shingles & Pickets," with two men in the woods, one poised with a... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Post Office at Tigerton, Wisconsin, with a stock Chinoiserie image of a man standing and a woman holding a fan sitting in either a boat o... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 07 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Second page of calendar for March and April, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one is of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation." |
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