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| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a skeleton on horseback, carrying a banner that reads, "Apocalypse". A skyline of Madison appears beneath, on fire, with the phrase "Heral... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for an exhibition titled "Fire Holes." Center burn image created by actually burning paper. Letterpress text below reads, "An exhibition... |
| Date: | 04 23 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the "Survival Revival Women's Conference." The poster features an American flag patterned castle in flames with a parade of women marching... |
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| Description: | A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ... |
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| Description: | "Battle of Mobile Bay." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis, holding a Confederate flag, is arriving in hell with a devil riding on his back. Another devil (Benedict Arnold) below is giving him a "wa... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The International Order of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) serve their fellow man by following the tenets of Friendship, Love, and Truth. A secret society for t... |
| Date: | 05 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| 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: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Detailed map of the western hemisphere and part of Africa and Europe. Islands, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, countries, and regions are marked. Mount... |
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