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| Date: | 03 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster for International Harvester refrigerators showing several refrigerators stocked with food, color chips, and the disembodied heads ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Millard's Tavern, 504 East Wilson Street with Fauerbach CB beer sign and "Bobby Hodges radio & TV star, Every Friday Night." Also shows Marty's Sandwich Sh... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester parts and service featuring a large paint brush coated with red paint. The brush has tools protruding from t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick corn picker service showing three horizontally stacked ears of corn bearing the words: "Corn Picker Service." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester's "mid-century promotion" featuring a line drawing of a white Farmall C demonstrator tractor. Includes the t... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick Farmall tractors featuring a color illustration of a man driving a Farmall C tractor on a blue background. Includes the te... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester engine service showing two bluebirds nesting over an "IH Service" sign. Includes the text: "for the love of ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester engine service featuring color illustration of a spark plug and piston. Includes the text: "More Power! get ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster promoting a "Low Cost Rental Plan" for Farmall Cub and International Cub Lo-Boy tractors and equipment. Features the text: "Do These Job... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| Date: | 04 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Joyce Smith Gaines' Drug Shop. |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Cabinet of sundries (toothpastes, shaving supplies, aspirin, etc.) next to the waiting area at Joyce Smith Gaines' Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Woman demonstrating a new space-saving Westinghouse washer/dryer unit. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of McCormick Farmall tractors with red and white paint schemes lined up in a semi-circle in a field. Tractors include (L to R)... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a sales agent showing a farmer a new McCormick Farmall H tractor alongside a storefront of a local IH dealership. In the background a... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Left half of advertising brochure spread illustrating different gas, distillate and diesel engines available for McCormick Farmall H, M and MD tractors. Th... |
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