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Champion Harvester and Binder

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo...
Photograph

Stripping and Printing a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man exposing a negative onto a zinc plate, in preparation for making a zinc etching at Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street.
Photograph

Making a Copper Etching

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A skilled copper etcher holding a photograph and comparing it to an etched copper halftone, adding additional detail at Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Car...
Photograph

Finishing and Proofing

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: At the Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street, as part of the finishing and proofing process, a worker is checking a halftone flat against the copy...
Photograph

Chauncey Stewart, Wisconsin Engraving Company Artist

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: Chauncey D. Stewart, commercial artist on the staff of Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street. He is at work on an illustration from which an engra...
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Shooting a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Co. plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is making a halftone negative, the first step in making a photo engra...
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Charles W. Short, Botanist

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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 ...
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Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist and Historian

Date: 1855
Description: Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ...
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
Book or Pamphlet

The Eclipse Wind Engine

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Description: Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working...
Photograph

Engraver Paul Hennie

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Paul Hennie, wholesale metal engraver, working on a large trophy in his office at 23 North Pickney Street.
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August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
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G.E. Evans Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of G.E. Evans, a grower of cultivated cranberries from New Lisbon, Wisconsin. Includes an illustration by (A.?) R.R. Richards of people working ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Gibson Byrd (left), Ellen Colescott and Warrington Cole...
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Increase Lapham.
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Oval head and shoulders vignetted portrait of Increase A. Lapham.
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Obed Hussey's Reaper of 1833

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of Obed Hussey's reaper of 1833 drawn by horses in a field.
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Bell's Reaper of 1826

Date: 1894
Description: Illustration of a man and horses with Bell's reaper of 1826.
Drawing

Process of Excavation, Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri...
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Menu for the Forty-Ninth Annual Dinner of the American Paper and Pulp Association

Date: 02 25 1926
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...

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