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| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising two lectures at the Monona Lake Assembly, near Madison in July 1903. First was a debate on "The Negro Problem" between Senator J.R. B... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Prospectus for the Madison Female Seminary, then operated by Joseph C. Pickard. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Membership card of the Bow Tie Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The card features a drawing of a bow tie with a jewel in the center of the knot and the words "T... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Card from Madison Dry League pledging support to those who seek to eliminate saloons in the city of Madison. The organization's slogan was, "A happy, sober... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Card advertising the return of beer for sale at the end of Prohibition. The card offered free delivery of Blatz Old Heidelberg brew to all parts of Madison... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Forged labels imitating United States Government Revenue stamps seized by Prohibition Officers. The labels were used by bootleggers to make customers belie... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the New Stoughton Company, manufacturers of truck cabs and bodies, wagons, bob sleds, spreaders, and "Stoughton Cushioned Trailers," with a t... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv... |
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| Description: | Memohead of Fuhremann Canning Company of De Forest, Wisconsin, "Packers of Fancy Peas and Corn" under the brands "Housewife's Pride, Judge Right & First Ro... |
| Date: | 04 06 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam... |
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| Description: | One-page menu from the restaurant at the Park Hotel with header text running from the left-hand side of the page, across the top, and down the right-hand s... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Johnson & Melaas, merchant tailors and cloth dealers, "Buyers of wool and Wisconsin leaf tobacco," with an engraving of a waterfront view of ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of Garver's Supply Company, supplier of feeds, flour, and building supplies, with a three-quarter view of the company building on Atwood Avenue. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Capital Battery and Supply Company, with two men in winged hats, one holding an automobile, the other a box radio, and the slogan, "Serving t... |
| Date: | 05 14 1886 |
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| Description: | Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B... |
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| Description: | Unused server's ticket from the Roxbury Tavern. There is a drawing of the building in the upper right of the ticket. |
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