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| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co... |
| Date: | 08 29 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
| Date: | 08 21 1963 |
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| Description: | Couple poses behind carnival cutout of a sailor and mermaid. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of young Hank Aaron swinging a bat, surrounded by other images of him, and text. Aaron broke his ankle as a major league rookie, on Sept. 5, 1954. ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | William Donahey's Teenie Weenie Dolls. The print features many of the characters: the General, the Sailor, the Lady of Fashion, Mrs. Lover, the Doctor, Tur... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Cub Scouts throw baseballs at a large caricature of a Japanese soldier during a Civilian Defense Rally. A man is sitting in a dunk tank on the left in a bo... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Several women and one man wade in Lake Flora Dell. Delia Drew King is second from left, in a white straw hat. A hand-drawn caption beneath the photograph r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delia Drew King wades in Lake Flora Dell. There is a hill and shoreline in the background, and a group of people stands near a pier behind Delia. A hand-dr... |
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| Description: | Frank O. King paints his character "Uncle Walt" onto a rowboat. The boy in the background on a pier is King's grand-nephew David Witt Nye. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis, dressed as a woman, floating in a washtub labeled: "Lady Davis" which is flying the Confederate flag. He is holding a bottle in his left h... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "1ST ROU... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "2ND ROU... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "3RD ROU... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two images of the "family" of Virginia. Above depicts a happy, prosperous "family" at the Declaration of Independence in 1776. A banner with the stars and ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A relaxed man sits in a chair reading a paper with his slippers on. He has food and drink on a nearby table. Below the captions reads "One of the C.S.A. ge... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a blue jacket and light blue trousers fishes in a "SECESSION POND." He is sitting on the Union flag. His fishing line has a Union flag on ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An angel holding a Union flag is saying "GOD WATCHES OVER THEM." Under her gaze two children peacefully sleep under a Union flag. At the foot of the bed an... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis and six sailors sail in a tea cup. A pirate flag flies overhead. One sailor is in the "crow's nest." Another is using a paddle. Three sailo... |
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