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| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising calendar for Deering farm machinery featuring color illustration of a street in a French town with people looking on as a man puts up a "Deerin... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | German advertising poster for International trucks. Features an illustration of a truck on a bridge in an urban setting. Includes the text "Vollendete Last... |
| Date: | 12 11 1970 |
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| Description: | Caption on back reads, "Given by 1st National Bank to student customers, 11-XII-70 [12/11/70]. This is the design of their new 'Madisonian' checks." Depi... |
| Date: | 03 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Social Science building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a "strike center." Features a photograph of the Social Scie... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C. as "the city that every American should know," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depict... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Fifth Avenue in New York as "The World's Greatest Shopping Street," and to get there by way of the train. The poster depic... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Virginia Historical Pageant, held in Richmond, VA, May 22-28, 1922. Featuring the Henry Day Lowry Metropolit... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a clock face partially obscured by a shadow. The clock covers part of the front of a building. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring buildings, including a clock tower. Text reads: Alf Heidelberg: Charity is Neutral. German-Austrian Hungarian Bazaar. Auditorium. March 2n... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of troops of World War I soldiers marching through the Arc de Triomphe. Soldiers from previous wars are marching down on a clou... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of two French women, one from Alsace and one from Lorraine, wearing traditional costumes and making floral wreaths. A church bu... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a road with a view through an archway towards a town, with rubble in the foreground on the left. There are pedestrians and a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of the ruins of the Cathédrale de Reims. A ghost image of the undamaged cathedral is in the background. Red poppy flowers are g... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of bombed out buildings, including the town hall, in Cambrai. This was part of a 1919 tourism campaign by the North Railroad to... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration depicting the war-damaged town of Arras, with ruins of large buildings. Text reads: "Arras. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemin de... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | Poster of Art Nesson, a well-known figure on State Street. Art made his living as a window washer, dishwasher and manual laborer. He is leaning on a mailbo... |
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