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Milwaukee Harvesting Equipment Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster showing a Milwaukee brand mower, grain binder, hay rake and reaper manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color ill...
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Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements showing a woman, child and dog enjoying a "group hug." Also includes color illustrations of a hay rake...
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Cream Separator Advertising Poster

Date: 1927
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose ball-bearing cream separators featuring color illustration of a woman and two children operating a cream ...
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Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
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Osborne Farm Machines and Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising calendar for Osborne brand farm implements showing two young boys tending a pot hanging over an evening fire.
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Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Advertising Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Advertising poster for the Champion grain binder produced by the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company of Springfield, Ohio. Features a color illustration ...
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McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
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Osborne Farm Machines and Implements

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster and January calendar for the Osborne disk harrow that "has long been the standard," featuring two boys cooking fish over a fire. I...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve...
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Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf...
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The Health Of The Child Is The Power Of The Nation

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C...
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Wounded Knee Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster of woman and child that says "Remember Wounded Knee".
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Votes for Women Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Poster issued by the Milwaukee County League of Women Voters that graphically urges women to vote.
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For Food... For Freedom

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster showing a close-up of a child with a dirty face.
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The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: Open Air Schools

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I...
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WLA Exhibit Poster: The Medical Inspection of School Children

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ...
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Food Wins Victories - Play Square With It

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 3, "Hungry Child." The poster features a smiling soldier feeding a spoonful of steaming peas and carrots to a destitute ...

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