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Milwaukee Mardi Gras

Date: 02 21 1882
Description: Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit...
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Poster for "The Cow-Boy Girl"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster advertising the musical "The Cow-boy Girl" depicting Pa trying to talk to Ma through her ear horn. Kilroy and Britton were the prod...
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Buffalo Hunt, Approaching in a Ravine

Date: 1844
Description: Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11).

"This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou...

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Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
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"Grateful Dead" Concert Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Poster for a "Grateful Dead" concert held on March 14, 1971 (3/14/71), at the Camp Randall Field House, Madison, Wisconsin. Features Jerry Garcia with a ma...
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German Man Eating Sausages

Date: 04 1971
Description: Large cartoon of a German man in lederhosen, eating sausage.
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"Spirit In Flesh" L.P. Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a new "Spirit in Flesh" LP. Features a bearded singer, holding a microphone and wearing an open vest.
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The American Way Travel Poster

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph depicting a scene aboard a United States Lines passenger ship, featuring a man and a woman looking toward the ocean's horizon.
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Great Northern Railroad Travel Poster featuring Chief Yellow Kidney

Date: 1935
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the "Route of the Empire Builder," by way of the Great Northern Railroad, and promoting travel to Glacier Nation...
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Central Pacific Railway California Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa...
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CIO Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by...
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SNCC poster

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Description: Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster featuring an African man and child on red background.
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Register

Date: 1944
Description: Poster of a man's arm with his shirt sleeve pushed up. He is holding a yellow card in his fingers with the text, "The Ballot is a power in your hands. Use ...
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Our Friend

Date: 1944
Description: A poster featuring the face of President Franklin Roosevelt on the right, and several people on the left. A soldier is holding a child in his arms, and oth...
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Democratic Candidates

Date: 11 1912
Description: Campaign poster promoting Democrats for office in Wisconsin; for Congress, Assembly and Dane County. Each man has a quarter-length portrait with his name a...
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Gargantua the Great

Date: 1938
Description: Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a...
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Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
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Wrestling Every Thursday at Muskego Beach

Date: 1930
Description: Poster for wrestling event at Muskego Beach featuring Reinhardt vs. Smith, Gacek vs. Ackley, Metropolis vs. Cherney, Haritay vs. Nagurski and White vs. Hes...
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Wrestling Every Thursday at Ben Heil's

Date: 1930
Description: Poster for wrestling event at Muskego across from Muskego Beach featuring Hessel vs. Reinhardt, Dennis vs. Freeman, Shadock vs. Masked Unknown and Ackley v...
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Wrestling Poster at the S.S. Armory

Date: 1930
Description: Poster for wrestling event at the S.S. Armory featuring Magy vs. Ackley, Stone vs. Smith, Dennis vs. Hessel, Ramsey vs. Hooper and Lorenzo vs. Anderson. Ev...

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