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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: | 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: | Advertisement promoting Kraft cheese as a picnic food for visitors to Kraftwood Gardens. The advertisement is on the inside back cover of A guide to Kr... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Promotional stamp for Wisconsin tourism. Shows the outline of the state with an arrow crossing from northeast to southwest and bears the slogan "relax in W... |
| 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: | Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Flyer titled In Wisconsin, School Costs Are the Heaviest Burden on General Property Taxpayers published by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities wi... |
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| Description: | Napkin from Brewmaster's Pub in Kenosha advertising itself as the Midwest's first brew pub. The graphic on the napkin includes a beer stein and a stalk of ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Stamp promoting Northwestern National Insurance Company of Milwaukee. Stamp includes a drawing of a fireman with hose, and the text reads: "Safety First. I... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet promoting War Savings Stamps and Victory Liberty Loans. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin State Fair brochure with a drawing of a family walking together above the slogan: "A Family Affair." The title at top reads: "Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair featuring images of several fair attractions. |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising the 1986 Wisconsin State Fair with cartoon images of a cow, a wheel of cheese, Ferris Wheel, musicians, and children with pie and crea... |
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