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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: | 02 22 1860 |
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| Description: | Menu for the Newhall House hotel in Milwaukee, extensively illustrated with an engraving of the hotel and prices. The Newhall House, during its day one of ... |
| Date: | 01 01 1858 |
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| Description: | Printed invitation to a New Year's Ball given at Weeden's Hotel in Neenah with music provided by Shattuck's Cotillion Band. The invitation is printed on e... |
| Date: | 04 29 1882 |
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| Description: | Printed invitation to the 2nd annual military ball of the Light Horse Squadron of Milwaukee. The invitation is printed in blue and gold and features illust... |
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| Description: | Ticket for a raffle in which a steel engraving with a gold leaf frame was the prize. |
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| Description: | Safety poster issued by the Safety Engineering Department of Employers Mutual Insurance Company of Wausau, Wisconsin, to urge automobile drivers not to spe... |
| Date: | 10 22 1896 |
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| Description: | "Sound Money!". A broadside advertising a talk by D.F. Tyrrel of Marinette, Wisconsin, in behalf of the Republican Presidential candidacy of William McKinl... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Round campaign sign in behalf of the unsuccessful Democratic Presidential candidacy of Alfred E. Smith, copyright by S.S. Bloom. Smith, who was best known... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Front side of order blank for Aunt Jenny's Garden for Victory seeds featuring a drawing of a woman and several vegetables. |
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| Description: | Cover of A guide to Kraftwood Gardens showing a view of a sailboat on Lake Machkinosiew (now Enterprise Lake) seen between trees. The publication's ... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a hooked muskellunge leaping out of the water. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal featuring a drawing of a deer. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a Native American sitting cross-legged, wearing a headdress, buckskin, and moccasins, and holding a calumet p... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and n... |
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| Description: | Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose thro... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Wine of the Woods and Balsam Drops, a purported cure for dyspepsia, constipation, and headaches marketed to women and sold by John L. Moo... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Harriet Meta's Face Dyspepsia Food which promised to make your face "round and plump" and to enlarge the bust and to make a "thin scrawny... |
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| Description: | Directions for use of Dr. Owen's Electric Belt and Spinal Appliance. There is a drawing of the device at the top of the page. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar... |
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