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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. This large poster documents Berger's campaign for United States Senate in a spec... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the band Harry Edwards and the Midwesterners. Text includes "Riding Into Town". |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker standing with her arms upraised, holding a miniature airplane in one hand and a bombshell in the other. In the background is the YW... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frank A. Hutchins from the cover of a program for a testimonial dinner in his honor. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the twentieth annual Mesquakie Indian Powwow in Iowa. The poster features a portrait of Young Bear. |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed by the Broom Street ... |
| Date: | 08 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for an event occurring between August 1971 and February 1972 called the "Traffic Experiment," in Madison. Features screen printed silhou... |
| Date: | 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating Jenness and Pulley as Socialist party candidates for the White House, in the 1972 presidential elections. Features photograph of former S... |
| Date: | 03 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a talk with Mahatma Parlokanand speaking about the teachings of Satguru Maharaj Ji, a spiritual Perfect Master. Features a picture of Sa... |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a public speech by Dick Gregory, African American comedian and civil rights activist. Event took place May 19, 1972 at the University of... |
| Date: | 08 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising The Buffalo Shoppe at 1348 Williamson Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. Featured antiques, and an old time photo studio, with photos taken ... |
| Date: | 04 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing La Raza Y El Movimiento event at the Great Hall in the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union in Madison, Wisconsin. Image of Chicano st... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster proclaiming the need for an urgent lesbian meeting. Poster depicts Athena with shield. Agenda for meeting includes a speakers bureau, counseling gro... |
| Date: | 09 1974 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a rally at Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Text reads: "The Ethiopian Masses Are Rising Up. Support the stru... |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a New Year's Eve concert with Luther Allison at the Nitty Gritty bar in Madison, Wisconsin. Features text of an interview with Luther Al... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A poster promoting an event which reads, "Afro Center Presents The Last Poets & *Black Haze." The event was held in the B-10 Commerce Building on Sunday, D... |
| Date: | 12 15 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a Young Socialist Alliance convention in New York. Topics such as "international report, anti-war, black struggle, women's liberation, a... |
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| Description: | The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed. |
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