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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Gothic Blimp Works

Date: 1969
Description: Cover of "Gothic Blimp Works," an underground comic newspaper, featuring a cartoon by Robert Crumb.
Photograph

World War II Ride Sharing Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r...
Print

Back of 1960's Wisconsin Dells Brochure

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Description: Back fold of a Wisconsin Dells promotional brochure featuring a simplified Wisconsin highway map with directions to the Dells, and a drawing of a family dr...
Historical Object

International Harvester Light Duty Models Paint Chart

Date: 1975
Description: International Harvester light duty models (100-500) cabs and bodies color chart. Contains paint chips for the main exterior body color and matches this wit...
Historical Object

International Harvester Scout Paint Chart

Date: 1975
Description: International Harvester Scout cabs and bodies color chart. Contains paint chips for the main exterior body color and matches this with the interior color s...
Postcard

New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard showing Santa Claus behind the steering wheel of his motorized sleigh. Holly fills the front and pine boughs fill the back. He is wearing ...
Print

"Merry Christmas"

Date: 1928
Description: Holiday card depicting a view of the front of an automobile with a couple inside driving down a snow-covered road at night. Two crystals are glued to the h...
Print

Seasons Greetings

Date: 1948
Description: Holiday card of the history of the State of Wisconsin, 1848-1948. Shows a map of Wisconsin with many historical and themed elements. Image was created by w...
Print

Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
Print

Valentine Greetings

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Description: Valentine's Day card with a girl and boy driving a convertible. They are wearing jackets and hats. The car is red with black trim and the retractable roof ...
Print

You've Copped My Heart!

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Description: Child's Valentine's Day card with a boy dressed as a police officer. His is holding up hi right hand and is holding a nightstick in the other hand. Text on...
Print

MADD Stickers

Date: 1985
Description: Two stickers promoting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) with a drawing of a car with a martini glass in front of it and a circle-backslash symbol (proh...
Print

Farmers Exchange Bank (Green Bay) Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Farmers Exchange Bank of Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the bank building and people walking on the sidewalk. There a...
Print

American Exchange Bank (Madison, Wis.) Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the American Exchange Bank, established in 1871 and originally named the German Bank and later, the German-American Bank, located on the Capi...
Print

F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Company of Milwaukee, manufacturers of and dealers in footwear, with an elevated, three-quarter view of the Mayer co...
Print

Ambrosia Chocolate Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Ambrosia Chocolate Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturers of chocolate confectionery and cocoa, with an elevated view of the comp...
Print

Gugler Lithographic Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Gugler Lithographic Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the company building.
Print

Underwood Typewriter Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee branch of the Underwood Typewriter Company, headquartered in New York. In the center is the image of a typewriter with a red ba...
Document

Western States Envelope Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Western States Envelope Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Makers of Guaranteed Sure Stick Envelopes," with an elevated, three-quarter vie...

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