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| Date: | 02 15 1932 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee-Detroit schedule of the Kohler Aviation Corporation. This Kohler company was based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was unrelated to the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A baggage sticker that advertises that airline as the "Lindbergh Line" and that is illustrated with a drawing of Lindbergh's plane, the "Spirit of St. Loui... |
| Date: | 07 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A Transcontinental & Western Airline schedule, effective July 1, 1933. Charles Lindbergh began his association with commercial aviation in 1928 when Trans... |
| Date: | 02 01 1948 |
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| Description: | First-flight souvenir schedule of Wisconsin Central Airlines, signed by Company President Francis Huggins when the company headquarters moved to Madison in... |
| Date: | 09 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A schedule for the Milwaukee-Detroit route of Pennsylvania Airlines. Pennsylvania Airlines, founded in 1931, became the successor to the "bridge across La... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Printed color handbill that advertised the special events of the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a woman bearing a platter of produce. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Cover of brochure for Old Timer's Resort (formerly Burke's Resort). |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising blotter for the Baraboo Auto Body Co. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Image of a man seated at a desk reading a Western Union telegram informing him that he has won $200,000 in a lottery. Text reads, "Everyone is born to a ch... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Illinois State Lottery Pick 4 ticket purchased Sunday, February 4, 1990. |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet explaining how to play the Wisconsin Lottery game Megabucks. Drawing on the cover shows people carrying oversize Megabucks cards and ex... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Wisconsin's dairy industry issued by the State Department of Agriculture. It depicts Wisconsin as the table upon which cheese and... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Brochure produced by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Markets to encourage the consumption of Wisconsin butter. |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin to persuade Wisconsin farmers of the value of a silo. Farmers were par... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | License from the City of Milwaukee granting Arthur Gerth permission to sell alcohol at 1222 12th Street. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Keep Cool with Coolidge in Wisconsin This Summer." A stamp presumably issued by the Outdoor Club of Wisconsin, to promote tourism in northern Wisconsin. I... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | "It Can Happen Here," a pamphlet distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. The CACC was founded by Fred C. Schwartz in 1953, the peak of the ant... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Anti-communist brochure, copyright by Harry T. Everingham, Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. The text asks "Why not try Communism?" and replies "The answer is y... |
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