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Portrait of Samuel Marshall

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Description: Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank.
Photograph

Men Wanted Poster

Date: 1930
Description: A U.S. government poster encouraging citizens to invest their money in banks and especially to buy U.S. Reconstruction bonds.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Strategic Hamlet

Date: 11 11 1970
Description: Cover of "Strategic Hamlet: An Isla Vista Street Journal," an underground newspaper, featuring a woman as Justice balancing the Bank of America and a group...
Photograph

Third Ward Building used on Movie Set

Date: 1990
Description: Building in Milwaukee's Third Ward as it appeared when portraying the Mason City Bank in the 1991 made-for-TV movie, "Dillinger".
Photograph

Vintage Automobiles on Movie Set

Date: 1990
Description: Vintage automobiles on a Milwaukee Third Ward street used to represent a bank robbery in Mason City for the made-for-TV movie, "Dillinger".
Photograph

Movie Set at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. On the right an African American girl and a Ca...
Print

Plan a Paid-For Christmas, Join the Christmas Club

Date: 1912
Description: Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c...
Photograph

Street Scene in the Business District

Date: 1915
Description: View down a street in a business district. A statue has a sign that reads: "If you can't fight, your dollars can," stands near an intersection. The First N...
Photograph

Street Scene, Salinas, California

Date: 1905
Description: View down a city street. Men and women walk past stores, restaurants, and Monterey County Bank, established in 1890.
Print

Commercial National Bank Letterhead

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Description: Numbered letterhead of the Commercial National Bank of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with a lion's head, names of bank officers, and the legend, "Capital and Sur...
Print

Lincoln State Bank (Milwaukee, Wis.) Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Lincoln State Bank, with a full-length statue of Abraham Lincoln standing, names of the bank officers, and "Capital $100,000".
Print

Vignette of Alexander Randall

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Description: Small vignette of an oval framed head and shoulders engraved portrait of Governor Alexander Randall. The words "Hon. Alexr. W. Randall" are typed under the...
Postcard

Main Street Looking West

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Main St. looking West, Stevens Point, Wis." A busy, unpaved street crowded with horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians on the...

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