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Edward Schildhauer

Date: 1893
Description: Mr. Edward Schildhauer sitting at a desk and writing in a book.
Manuscript

Front Page of Dan Smith Letter

Date: 07 1774
Description: Front page of a letter written and signed by Dan Smith.
Manuscript

Back Page of Dan Smith Letter

Date: 07 1774
Description: Back page of a letter written and signed by Dan Smith.
Book or Pamphlet

Illustration from The Yellow Wallpaper

Date: 1892
Description: Illustration to the story The Yellow Wallpaper, depicting a woman seated in a rocking chair next to a window writing. The caption reads, "I am sitti...
Photograph

Anita Loos

Date: 06 30 1921
Description: Over-the-shoulder portrait of the writer Anita Loos made by Charles James Fox in New York. With her bobbed hair and sharp sense of humor, Loos was the epit...
Photograph

Anita Loos

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York.
Photograph

Anita Loos

Date: 1918
Description: The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ...
Photograph

Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
Photograph

Syl Carving his Name in Tree

Date: 03 10 1902
Description: Syl, wearing a sailor suit and cap, carves his name into a tree. To the left is a deck suspended over a steep hill. Below is a lake or river.
Photograph

IH Dealer Takes Scrap Drive Pledge

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana...
Manuscript

Bennett Diary Pages

Date: 05 1863
Description: Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War.
Postcard

Cliffs of Dover Postcard

Date: 1908
Description: Front and back of a postcard sent from Agnes to William (Bill) Quinney. The front features a print of the Cliffs of Dover in pastel tones while, on the ba...
Postcard

Detroit Skyline Postcard

Date: 1930
Description: The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc...
Postcard

The Cowboy

Date: 1946
Description: Back of a cowboy postcard sent by Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family. A Curt Teich Art Colortone published by Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denv...
Photograph

National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 09 1951
Description: Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti...
Poster

Gettysburg Address

Date: 
Description: The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed.
Poster

Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation

Date: 
Description: A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission...
Poster

Great Event of the Age! Negro Emancipation Proclaimed!

Date: 1863
Description: Poster with decorative border and text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
Manuscript

Introductory Page of the Kentucky Papers

Date: 10 08 1862
Description: An introduction to the Kentucky Papers, written by Spencer Records, which begins, "I have written the following narrative partly for my own satisfaction an...

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