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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: | 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: | 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Cover of a public relations booklet outlining the Gatti-Hallicrafters expedition to British East Africa. Features a color photograph of Italian explorer At... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st... |
| 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: | 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: | A holiday postcard depicting the traditional image of St. Nicholas walking on foot garbed in a long green robe and carrying a bunch of switches for naughty... |
| 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: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the twentieth annual Mesquakie Indian Powwow in Iowa. The poster features a portrait of Young Bear. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait, with accompanying obituary entry, of Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), American soldier, explorer, and geologist. Best known ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis... |
| Date: | 11 26 1971 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Maine Times," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a boy holding a rifle and posing next to a deer, suspended from his garage. The... |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "News from Nowhere," an underground newspaper, featuring a mosaic image of an African American male face. |
| Date: | 05 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Liberated Guardian," an underground newspaper, featuring black rebel soldiers carrying firearms. The central figure has a button with a photograp... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day postcard with Cupid holding a bow and arrow seated in a two-wheeled cart made of flowers, two cherubs are pushing it. They are in a meadow ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with three hearts attached by ribbons. The top heart contains two cherubs with a cornucopia full of hearts. It has a gold, blue and wh... |
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