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    Balloon brand packed by the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Co. Hanford, Cal

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    Image of a Balloon Brand raisin label from the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Company of Hanford, California; a bunch of grapes stands in for helium balloons lifting a hot air balloon basket filled with people over a river landscape with sail boats and steamboats visible below.

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  • Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Valley route to the great north-west

    Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Valley route to the great north-west

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    Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad routes of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and connecting lines centered and bordered with promotional text, lists of railway stations, and six landscape vignettes captioned "Fort Snelling, Minn."; Dells of the Wisconsin. - Inkstand & Sugar Bowl."; "Templar Rock, Lake Pepin."; Jaws of the Dells."; "The Maiden's Rock, on Lake Pepin." with an image of a Native American in a headdress in the foreground overlooking a railroad train and steamboats; and "Vizor Ledge, east of Standing Rock."; map verso contains panels with promotional text, timetables, a "Map of the Business Districts of Chicago" and two vignettes on the fold-up map cover captioned, "Dells of the Wisconsin. - Lone Rock from Below." and "Dells of Wisconsin. - Inkstand and Sugar Bowl."

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  • Haverly’s American United Mastodon Minstrels : realistic reminiscence. Illustrating

    Haverly’s American United Mastodon Minstrels : realistic reminiscence. Illustrating

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    Image of an African American fire brigade, with "40" written on their shirts, standing in two rows and tipping their helmets towards Columbia, the goddess of Liberty, who emerges in the center of the image from the sky with American flags and an eagle; one man stands between the rows of firemen pulling a toy fire engine.

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  • Military register. : Spanish American War 1898

    Military register. : Spanish American War 1898

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    Image of a blank military register for the Spanish-American War with elaborate frame made up of three vignettes and six portraits of United States military leaders, Including Admiral George Dewey, Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson, General William Rufus Shafter, General Fitzhugh Lee and General Nelson A. Miles; goddess Columbia with a large American flag and bald eagle with Union shield surrounded by soldiers top center; U.S.S. Maine with two other ships in bottom right corner; soldiers in formation near a military camp with horse-drawn cannons in bottom left corner.

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  • A cuspide corona

    A cuspide corona

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    Image of a certificate presented by the State of California for service in the Spanish-American War; several vignettes showing various fighting soldiers, ships, marches, and battles frame the central image of the goddess Columbia in front of a large American flag with a spear and laurel wreath in her hands next to a columned monument with certificate text; state seal of California with motto "Eureka" and goddess Minerva (Athena) and a California grizzly bear at top of monument.

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  • Boston Locomotive Works. Passenger engine

    Boston Locomotive Works. Passenger engine

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    Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, a red flag on the pilot, and the label "Boston" on the boiler.

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