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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '... |
| Date: | 06 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pharmacy advertising "Low Cost Drugs." The building also has a painted advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. |
| Date: | 06 11 1989 |
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| Description: | Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County. |
| Date: | 11 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A crowd is gathered around MGM's "trackless train" outside the Astor Theater where "The Big Parade" is showing. Also visible is a gigantic advertisement fo... |
| Date: | 10 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A five-story tall inflatable gorilla attracted potential buyers to a special sale at the Uptown Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Wauwatosa. Although the pres... |
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| Description: | View across road of the Progressive Club with an advertisement for Burger Beer on the sign on the tree in front near the road. On the far left is a sign fo... |
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| Description: | A man and woman standing in front of Bellinger's Grocery store and gas station. |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, laughing for the camera, displays a newspaper advertisement that proclaims: "McCarthyism is Treason to America." |
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| Description: | Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a military vehic... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a poster still for the Warner production "Casablanca" (Warner 1942). |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Extensive promotional exhibit in front of an unidentified New York theater for the 1938 Universal film "The Crime of Doctor Hallet" starring Ralph Bellamy.... |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | Composite of beer labels in the Wisconsin Historical Images collection. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella... |
| Date: | 10 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men are putting up a billboard sign. Two of the men are wearing suits and the third is wearing an overcoat. Caption reads: "A billboard promoting Mil... |
| Date: | 02 15 1989 |
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| Description: | Three children are posing together on a wicker bench. Caption reads: "The nautical look is an important spring theme in children's wear, and it could mean ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1989 |
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| Description: | Three girls are sitting on a wicker chair, and wearing floral print dresses. The middle girl is holding a parasol over the three of them. Caption reads: "F... |
| Date: | 10 15 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a banner promoting Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." Chaplin costumed as the dictator Hynkel contemplates a globe in the upper right. In the lower left... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | In this banner design for Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," Chaplin as Hynkel the dictator gives a salute and casts a large shadow. |
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