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| 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... |
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| Description: | Cover design of a pamphlet entitled "Patriotic Songs (Not For Self But For Others)," compiled by Pat Malone, featuring a Ku Klu Klux Klansman posing inside... |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet featuring a question mark and the text "Why How What Who And You, KKKK" with a drawing of a Ku Klux Klansman wearing a conical hat and ... |
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| Description: | Cover design of a pamphlet which includes the text "White Book/ Kloran/ K-Uno/ Karacter Honor Duty" and features a drawing of a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) wear... |
| Date: | 05 18 1982 |
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| Description: | A friendly letter from Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush to Lee Sherman Dreyfus. |
| Date: | 04 30 1982 |
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| Description: | A friendly letter from President Ronald Reagan to Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus. |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Stage Company Pass belonging to Reverend Kemper. The pass bear engravings of a train and a stage coach. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | 1859 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad pass belonging to S.S. Merrill. Pass is signed by George Dunlap. |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing. |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising The Quick and The Dead, described as "an exciting documentary series on the atomic bomb starring Bob Hope as Mr. Average Citizen." It ... |
| Date: | 12 30 1856 |
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| Description: | A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall. |
| Date: | 12 19 1853 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho... |
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