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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
Photograph

Andrew Carnegie

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Andrew Carnegie.
Photograph

International Harvester Factory Employee in Foundry

Date: 1907
Description: Older factory worker standing among stacks of molds for casting parts. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osborne Works.
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President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Generals

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Description: Jefferson Davis, center, surrounded by, clockwise from the top: Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. John...
Poster

Daniel DeLeon

Date: 1900
Description: Socialist Labor Party poster promoting Daniel DeLeon, as Governor of the State of New York.
Photograph

Lucius Fairchild

Date: 11 1863
Description: Photograph of Lucius Fairchild of the 2nd Wisconsin made by Mathew Brady in Washington, D.C. about three months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Severely wo...
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N.B. Van Slyke

Date: 07 13 1872
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of N.B. Van Slyke at the age of 50 years.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Gothic Blimp Works

Date: 1969
Description: Cover of "Gothic Blimp Works," an underground comic newspaper, featuring a cartoon by Robert Crumb.
Photograph

John Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge

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Description: John Burroughs (4/3/1837 – 3/29/1921), an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement, standing on the po...
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Orrin W. Beach

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Orrin W. Beach, Companies B and A, 34th New York Infantry. When the regiment was originally mustered in (June 1861 ...
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Rufus King

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of General Rufus King in uniform with epaulettes, with a sword across his left leg.
Photograph

Pete Seeger Concert

Date: 09 1977
Description: Pete Seeger with a banjo performing at a picnic, perhaps a fund-raising event, for the "Guardian," a radical weekly newspaper.
Photograph

Nathaniel Marsh Edwards

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Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Nathaniel Marsh Edwards. Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on July 5, 1837. 1st New York Volunteer Engineers on...
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Ambrose Burnside

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of General Ambrose Burnside.
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Ambrose Burnside

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Description: Waist-up engraved portrait of General Ambrose Burnside.
Photograph

John G. Foster

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Description: Three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General John G. Foster in uniform, holding his hat. At the start of the war he was the chief enginee...
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John C. Fremont

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General John C. Fremont in full officer uniform, holding his sword in front. During the war he commanded the ...
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Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Edwin Vose Sumner

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Description: Seated, waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Major General Edwin Vose Sumner wearing officer dress uniform. At the start of the Civil War President Lincoln...
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Edward P. Bridgman

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Private Edward P. Bridgman, Company G, 37th Massachusetts Infantry.

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