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| Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
| Date: | 04 1854 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention at Young's Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 13th, 1854. The poster attempts to unite indivi... |
| Date: | 05 10 1855 |
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| Description: | A poster advertising a $100 reward to be issued by Marcus Du Val for his runaway "servant" Matthew Turner. The poster includes a physical description of th... |
| Date: | 03 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp. |
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| Description: | Looking West from Knight Block, with shipping piers and sailing ships on right side, railroad on left, trees in background. Horse-drawn carriages on street... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Horlick's Food Company of Racine, Wisconsin, from the 1890s, showing the Horlick's factory, a dairy maid with a cow and a container of Ho... |
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| Description: | Advertisement promoting the use of Harley Davidson Motorcycles equipped with Loadometers that are used for checking up on trucks that have weight overloads... |
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| Description: | Advertisement in Norwegian for land in Grand Falls, Ward County, Texas. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Etching of interior of bonded warehouse with four men present, two conversing and two rolling barrels. |
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| Description: | Paul Bunyan walking with an axe over his shoulder and whistling. He is accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox who is carrying several people on his back. |
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| Description: | Drawing of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe, hauling off Section 37. Bunyan has an axe over his shoulder and holds a pipe. |
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| Description: | Mess hall at Paul Bunyan's lumber camp. Men are seated at long tables as trains dispense soup, coffee, and tea, while salt is hauled in a wagon pulled by e... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Hunter's Magnetic Saline Fountain Water which was being given away as promotion by an agent in Fond du Lac. The water supposedly cured rh... |
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| Description: | Directions for using the vacuum cap, a device intended to stimulate hair growth. A drawing at the top shows a man with the cap on his head with the cap tur... |
| Date: | 11 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Prescription for alcohol to treat bronchitis written by a Kenosha doctor. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the Kissel Custom Built Car published in the June, 1927 issue of the "Wisconsin Motorist" magazine, page 13. The company was the Kisse... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A handout urging citizens to re-elect Republican candidate Michael Lombardi for Sheriff of Waukesha County. He was re-elected, and served the statutory lim... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A two-sided, antisemitic card featuring "Ikie" Eisenhower on the left (with "IKIE" below) and a caricature of a Jewish man on the right (with "US" below). ... |
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| Description: | Copy of broadside issued by Illinois Vigilance Association for use in railway stations and public buildings. It is a warning to girls that are traveling to... |
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