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| Date: | 01 1973 |
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| Description: | A wall calendar featuring the "World Famous Green Bay Packers." The calendar is advertising Hank Lefebvre's commercial photography business. |
| Date: | 08 07 1968 |
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| Description: | A ticket to a "Salute to Vince Lombardi" that took place on August 7 at Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena. The ticket was for a seat at "Table One." |
| 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: | Advertising card for Dr. Townsend & Sons of Wyocena, manufacturers of all kinds of fluid extracts, liniments, etc. |
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| Description: | Advertising card for O.L. Oleson of Ramona, Wisconsin who sold patent medicines. The card features a photograph of Oleson seated in a wagon advertising Wil... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Ticket stub for a football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Cardinals played at Comiskey Park on December 2, 1956. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Place mat featuring portraits of eleven players of the Green Bay Packers and a Lambeau Field seating chart. Players include: Lynn Dickey (quarterback), Joh... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Two stickers promoting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) with a drawing of a car with a martini glass in front of it and a circle-backslash symbol (proh... |
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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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Inside of Coke bottle cap with a head shot of NFL All Star offensive end Ron Kramer, #88. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Inside of Coke bottle cap with a head shot of Packers full back, #37 Jim Taylor. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Inside of Coke bottle cap with a head shot of NFL All Star defensive end, #87, Willie Davis. |
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