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State Fair Side Show Attractions

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Description: State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ...
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Portrait of Mrs. Ed Dixon

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Description: Studio portrait of Mrs. Ed Dixon dressed to advertise druggist J.F. Stillman.
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Dealer Preparing Truck

Date: 11 22 1937
Description: McCormick-Deering dealer Edward Gumienick smoking a cigar as he is loading dairy equipment into his International truck for a sales "canvassing" trip. His ...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Photograph

Group of Circus Musicians

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Description: Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent.
Photograph

Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
Print

State Fair Stamp

Date: 1915
Description: Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Mower Display

Date: 1933
Description: Mower and assorted mower parts on display in front of banners advertising McCormick-Deering farm equipment, twine, machines and motor trucks in Hancock Imp...
Photograph

Nebraska State Fair Tent

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'...
Photograph

IH Film at Nebraska State Fair

Date: 1930
Description: An audience at the Nebraska State Fair sits in the International Harvester tent to watch a motion picture. Banners advertising IH farm equipment and repair...
Photograph

Cream Separator and Milker Display

Date: 1932
Description: Two men stand next to cream separators and milkers on display inside I.E. Lillegaard's International Harvester dealership. Cans of oil stand in the foregro...
Photograph

Cream Separator on Display at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 07 02 1929
Description: Cream separator advertising display, featuring life-size cutouts of a man pouring milk from a canister and a little girl holding a doll. A sign overhead ad...
Photograph

Showroom at Muscatine Imp. Co.

Date: 01 14 1929
Description: Tractors, plows, harrows and other farm equipment on display in the showroom of the Muscatine Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Ban...
Photograph

Showroom at Morrison Implement Co.

Date: 1929
Description: A corn sheller, plow and disc harrows on display in the showroom of the Morrison Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Posters and bann...
Photograph

Clarksdale IH Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Mechanics work on tractors and a truck in the service shop of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising banners hang from the ceiling and in the b...
Photograph

Interior of IH Dealership

Date: 1944
Description: Showroom floor and service counter of the Brown Tractor Company, an International Harvester dealership. Two men are at the service counter. Advertising pos...
Photograph

At Muscoda's First Cheese Day

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Man sitting in driver's seat of a Skelly Truck promoting itself with banners and streamers. In the background on the right is a church.
Postcard

Lunch Stand at Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of a lunch stand advertising buttered popcorn, ice cream cones and cigars. Groups of men, women and children are...
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Sponsored Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a wagon pulled by a team of six horses advertising "The People's Drugstore" under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Pa...

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