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Old Buildings of Milwaukee

Date: 10 13 1895
Description: Twenty-one photographs of churches, city halls, courthouses, and other buildings and their locations throughout Milwaukee.
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University of Wisconsin YMCA Photography Center

Date: 02 18 1971
Description: Poster advertising photograph classes at the University of Wisconsin YMCA. A camera case with a camera, light meter, film, and lens tissue is prominately d...
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Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: A Daily Program for Boys and Girls No. 1

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating a "daily program for boys & girls," including a "cold bath," "clean hand, face, teeth...," an insistence on "ventilation in sch...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: A Daily Program for Boys and Girls No. 2

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating a "Daily Program for Boys & Girls," including "brush teeth, walk slowly to school," "clean up for supper" and "no late hours."
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Don't Whip the Dull Child!

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster enumerating "important causes of dullness in children" and exhorting the reader to "find and remove the cause."
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: The Medical Inspection of School Children

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Baby's Food, No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster with illustration showing a mother holding her baby with the text "breast fed baby has 15 changes to live compared with the bottle fed baby'...
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The Evacuation of Richmond, Virginia

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Description: "The Evacuation of Richmond Virginia. By the Government of the Southern Confederacy on the Night of April 2nd 1865." Before evacuating, the Confederates se...
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International 4-Speed Truck Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for an International 1 1/2-ton 4-speed truck. The poster features an illustration of the truck along with text explaining its features a...
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French-Language Deering Poster

Date: 1930
Description: French-language poster advertising Deering tractors and farm equipment. The poster features an illustration of a man using a tractor and a disc harrow(?) i...
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Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed.
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National Platform of the Prohibition Party

Date: 07 16 1908
Description: Document outlining the platform of the Prohibition party. The document is decorated with scrollwork and calligraphy.
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Wanted Poster

Date: 1920
Description: A paste-up of a wanted poster created to identify Frank Lambert and his aliases and crimes. A series of 14 poses of Lambert dressed in a suit and hat, smok...

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