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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a steam powered sailing ship named "Progress" with a McCorm... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the annual ball at Turner Hall, sponsored by Madison's Andrew Proudfit Steam Fire Engine Company #2. The company, which was organized in 1870... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Pass #497 issued for free travel during the year 1878 by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. |
| Date: | 10 24 1863 |
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| Description: | Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Guest ticket for the Republican National Convention held in St. Louis. The ticket shows the celebrated Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, and the log cab... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Chicago and Northwestern Railway pass belonging to Reverend Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Stage Company Pass belonging to Reverend Kemper. The pass bear engravings of a train and a stage coach. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | 1859 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad pass belonging to S.S. Merrill. Pass is signed by George Dunlap. |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Goodrich Transportation Company listing destinations and departure times. In the center of the advertisement is a drawing of a sidewhe... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A howling dog tied to a post, with an empty food dish in front of him. Water is in the background with a sailing ship, probably from the blockade. Text abo... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A white sailor and a Native American man are sitting on the ground near the water, with ships in the distance. The colonist is holding a sextant in his lef... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A cherub (angel) sits on a wagon with a bellows on top. He is blowing bubbles from a pipe. The newest bubble has the words " A ZEPHYR" in it (a zephyr is a... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A circus traveling on the road has three cages, the first and second are flying the Confederate flag. A stone at the side of the road says "TO BOSTON." "T... |
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