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Harry Edwards and the Midwesterners Poster

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Description: Advertising poster for the band Harry Edwards and the Midwesterners. Text includes "Riding Into Town".
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"First Aid Rooms" Factory Safety Poster

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing six first aid rooms at six different International Harvester factory and office locations: Champion Works, Akron Works Dispen...
Poster

Health and Safety Poster on Employee Clubs

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Clubs - Fostered for Good Fellowship; Recreation for Good Health." promoting International Harvester's ideas on the im...
Poster

Health and Safety Poster Illustrating Employee Lunch Rooms

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ...
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International Harvester Christmas Sign

Date: 1921
Description: Holiday sign illustrated with an image of Santa Claus advocating employee safety at International Harvester factories. The sign reads: "The International H...
Poster

"Gambling With Fate" Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate...
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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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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...
Poster

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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