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International Harvester Toy Catalog Cover

Date: 1973
Description: Cover of a brochure for International Harvester toys. Features a color illustration of a boy riding an International pedal tractor pulling a wagon filled w...
Poster

Campaign Supplies

Date: 1938
Description: A poster promoting campaign supplies that could be ordered with a candidate's name printed on it. The items include: cloth signs, posters, window cards, kn...
Photograph

Auto Buy Week

Date: 05 01 1958
Description: One man is pointing his index finger under a pin on the lapel of another man. The pin says: "Business Is Good." The pin is worn by Melvin Larson, State Mot...
Photograph

Obey and Ed Garvey

Date: 1994
Description: Congressman David R. Obey with Edward R. Garvey during a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club in Madison. Garvey was the executive director of the Natio...
Photograph

Wilbur J. Cohen Speaks at the 50th Anniversary of Social Security

Date: 1985
Description: Wilbur Cohen speaks from a lectern at the 50th anniversary celebration of Social Security. On one lapel he is wearing a button which says: "Happy Birthday...
Photograph

Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 02 2014
Description: Girl Scouts selling cookies at Festival Foods on Copeland Avenue.
Poster

Buy a Liberty Bond of the U.S. Government and Wear This Button

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a large version of the Liberty Bond button, which includes the Statue of Liberty and reads: "I Own a Liberty Bond." Pos...
Poster

I Have Bought Another Liberty Loan. Have You?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large version of the Liberty Loan button with the Statue of Liberty and the words: "I Own a Liberty Bond." An arrow directs the viewer f...
Poster

You're Not in Style If You Don't Wear a Button Like This

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an oversized Liberty Loan button of 1917, which includes the Statue of Liberty and the words: "Get Behind the Government, Liberty Loan of ...
Photograph

Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: One of the philanthropic projects of the Madison Altrusa Club's annual country fair proceeds is scholarships for young women to take the practical nurse's ...

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