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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Republican Campaign Ticket issued in Dane County, Wisconsin. Heading the slate are James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Near the bottom of the ticket... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Ticket for the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. This ticket belonged to William Freeman Vilas of Wisconsin, the Secretary of the Interior. The ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Souvenir placard issued by the Kreuz & Curtis shoe store of Madison, Wisconsin, probably to commemorate the presidential election victory of Benjamin Harri... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Democratic Presidential ticket for that party's slate in Dane County, Wisconsin. Although Buchanan was victorious in the national election, in Wisconsin, ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Organizational poster for a young men's Republican Club in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to support the 1896 Presidential campaign of William McKinley. The Presiden... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Monroe County Republican Party ticket, headed by James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Blaine lost to the Democrat Grover Cleveland. Names on the statewide ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the Presidential Inaugural Ball that celebrated the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, together with Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the Presid... |
| 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: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Engraved invitation to the reception and promenade concert held in celebration of the election of President James A. Garfield (left) and Vice President Che... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Republican Party ticket distributed in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, in support of the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison and his running mate Levi P. Morton. ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the Pfister & Vogel Leather Co., with an engraving of a bird's-eye view of the city (signed Ma-- Richards, Mil Wis) advertising the "Nationa... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | One-page tea room menu from the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. At the top is an illustration of a gondolier steering a couple in a c... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A certificate acknowledging the admission of Frederick Beermein to Sons of Temperance. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | A colorful certificate that acknowledges the membership of Willie Diederich of Waukesha, Wisconsin into Band of Hope, a temperance organization. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A certificate declaring the admission of U. P. Olin into the Independent Order of Good Templars. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Ticket admitting a member of the Crawford County Agricultural Society along with his partner and their unmarried children under 21 years of age to the "Nin... |
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