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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Press ticket for the Republican National Convention in Chicago, decorated with an engraving of the White House. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Guest ticket for the Republican National Convention held in St. Louis. The ticket shows the celebrated Eads Bridge across the Mississippi, and the log cab... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Guest ticket to the Republican National Convention held in Chicago at the partially completed Auditorium Building. The Auditorium is one of the best known... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A damaged Republican Party ticket for the Racine County Wisconsin slate headed by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Also of note on the ticket is Congre... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | An Unconditional Union ticket printed in Indiana in 1864 in support of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The support for Lincoln's prose... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Ticket for the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison. This ticket belonged to William Freeman Vilas of Wisconsin, the Secretary of the Interior. The ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Democratic Presidential ticket for that party's slate in Dane County, Wisconsin. Although Buchanan was victorious in the national election, in Wisconsin, ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Monroe County Republican Party ticket, headed by James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Blaine lost to the Democrat Grover Cleveland. Names on the statewide ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the Presidential Inaugural Ball that celebrated the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, together with Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the Presid... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | 1860 Presidential Democratic ticket headed by John C. Breckenridge (it should be spelled Breckinridge), and the vice-president, Joseph Lane, that was distr... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Engraved invitation to the reception and promenade concert held in celebration of the election of President James A. Garfield (left) and Vice President Che... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Republican Party ticket distributed in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, in support of the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison and his running mate Levi P. Morton. ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1899 |
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| Description: | The facade of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., on the back cover of the Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The first national flag of the Confederacy (Stars and Bars) and the slogan: "We are in the field, and the bars are up!" Red and blue ink on cream envelope,... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Chicago and Northwestern Railway pass belonging to Reverend Jackson Kemper. |
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