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McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor, "The Original All-Purpose Tractor." Foldout advertising brochure entitled "Farm With Farmalls." Includes a color illustr...
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Banner Printing Company Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Banner Printing Company of Jefferson, Wisconsin, which printed "The Jefferson Banner" newspaper. On the left is a banner hanging from a pos...
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Gazette Publishing Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Gazette Publishing Company, a printer and publisher of the "Green Bay Gazette" newspaper, with the name of the company in undulating type...
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Krebs Lithographing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Krebs Lithographing Company, a steam lithographic printing house in Cincinnati, Ohio, with two workmen and a boy operating a printing press...
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Northwestern Lithographing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, publishers, and engravers, with a standing female figure in ...
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The Tribune Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Frank H. Brady, publisher and printer of Clintonville, Wisconsin, with "The Tribune" printed in embossed gold type and a triangular area of s...
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The Wisconsin Agriculturist Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of The Wisconsin Agriculturist, a weekly published in North Freedom, Wisconsin, with small background images of corn and wheat and a farmer plow...
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"Wisconsin Demokrat" Memohead

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Description: Memohead of a newspaper originally published in Stockbridge as the "Union," but known as the "Wisconsin Demokrat" after its editor moved production to Chil...
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"We Got It!" Zine Cover

Date: 03 1976
Description: Front cover of We Got It!, a zine published by the Madison-based Lesbian Communications Collective from 1975-1976. The cover art parodies the Grant ...
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The "Progressive Magazine" Cover Design

Date: 12 02 1962
Description: The cover design of the December issue of "The Progressive." It features a vivid yellow background, a black and white photographic collage, and the article...
Book or Pamphlet

"The Pneumatic"

Date: 04 15 1892
Description: The masthead page of the first issue of "The Pneumatic," a monthly cycling magazine. It features a cartoon captioned, "A Spring Cycling Episode."
Book or Pamphlet

The North American Press Cover

Date: 02 1928
Description: The embossed soft cover of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George...
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Examples of Printed Work

Date: 02 1928
Description: The centerfold of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder ...
Book or Pamphlet

Composition Book

Date: 1889
Description: The cover of a composition book printed by the Germania Publishing Company. A label identifies the contents as "Incorporation-Papers and Minutebook, German...
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Robert Aitken

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Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Robert Aitken, a printer and the first to publish an English-language Bible in the United States, in 1782.
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"The Man Nobody Knows" Article

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Description: A publicity article about the book "The Man Nobody Knows," written by Bruce Barton. In the article, it's called "The Most Exalted Success Story of All Time...

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