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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Red, black and gold cover art for McCormick advertising catalog showing silhouette of a farmer on a horse-drawn reaper. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s... |
| Date: | 07 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association Council visit the old Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Smithsonian. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe... |
| Date: | 04 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover shows a man standing near a drainage ditch. The bookl... |
| Date: | 06 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra... |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | "Progressive Emancipation Bond" certificate for contributions to the Progressive Party for the 1924 presidential campaign in which La Follette was running ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1900 |
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| Description: | Pamphlet of Robert M. La Follette's first speech of the campaign that took place at Schlitz Park. The pamphlet contains the full speech. |
| Date: | 04 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Speech of Robert M. La Follette in the Senate of Wisconsin regarding the war with Germany. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard with Santa Claus with a walking stick, carrying a sack and holding a Christmas tree on his shoulder. He is in front of a snow-covered hous... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Image of a man seated at a desk reading a Western Union telegram informing him that he has won $200,000 in a lottery. Text reads, "Everyone is born to a ch... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frank A. Hutchins from the cover of a program for a testimonial dinner in his honor. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Bumper sticker from the 1968 Presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy. |
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