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Photograph

Andreas Dahl's Photographic Gallery

Date: 1878
Description: Exterior view of Andreas Dahl's photographic gallery. The gallery is attached to his house.
Photograph

Waupun Stone Mills

Date: 1878
Description: View of Waupun Stone Mills, established in 1849, in the background. Construction of an addition is underway. People are in the foreground in front of a br...
Photograph

Family in Yard around Table

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T...
Print

McCormick Harvester Catalog

Date: 1878
Description: Front cover of a catalog for McCormick's Harvester and Self-Binder, featuring a drawing of a binder at work in the field.
Print

McCormick Self-Binder Instructions

Date: 1878
Description: Directions for attaching the McCormick Self-Binder to a harvester. Features an illustration of an early wire binder.
Poster

McCormick Harvester Directions

Date: 1878
Description: Handbill with directions for putting together the McCormick Harvester. Features an illustration of a Marsh-type harvester.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Northern Iowa

Date: 1878
Description: Map reads: "The P.P. Mast & Co's New Map of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Northern Iowa". There are various advertisements for P.P. Mast & Co's broad-cast seed...
Print

McCormick Wire Binder Advertisement

Date: 1878
Description: Advertisement for the McCormick Combined Reaping and Self-Binding Machines, as manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company [or possibly C.H. a...
Print

Goodrich Transportation Co. Advertisement

Date: 1878
Description: Advertising card for Goodrich Transportation Company listing destinations and departure times. In the center of the advertisement is a drawing of a sidewhe...
Print

Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator Advertisement

Date: 1878
Description: Newspaper advertisement for Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator for diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. A long list of diseases the tonic treated is wr...
Map or Atlas

Map of Vernon County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This 1878 map of Vernon County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, towns, cities and villages, land ownership and acreages, roads, rai...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Mower & Reaper Catalog Cover

Date: 1878
Description: The cover features four illustrations in each corner of men operating mowers and reapers in the field with teams of two horses.
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card with a color illustration of a Gale Chilled Plow.
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Map or Atlas

Map of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This map includes business directories, statistical table, distance table, list of county officers, and illustrated views of residential and commercial pro...

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