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Chattanooga Cane Mill Advertising Poster (Colombia)

Date: 1926
Description: South American advertising poster for Chattanooga brand cane mills showing men processing sugar in a tropical setting. Imprinted with "unicos importadores ...
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Health and Safety Poster Illustrating Employee Lunch Rooms

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ...
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German Man Eating Sausages

Date: 04 1971
Description: Large cartoon of a German man in lederhosen, eating sausage.
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Nitty Gritty Poster: You Are Wanted in Here

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Description: Hand-drawn poster that was originally displayed outside of The Nitty Gritty in Madison, Wisconsin. Reads, "You Are Wanted in Here!".
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Help Him When You Shop

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 4, "Smiling Grocer." The poster features the neighborhood grocer with an apron and a pencil tucked behind his ear agains...
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International Harvester Bakeries Poster

Date: 1932
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester trucks as used by the bakery industry. The poster features a color illustration of a uniformed man holding a...
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International Harvester Bottling Truck Poster

Date: 1932
Description: Poster advertising International trucks as used by the bottling industry. The poster features a color illustration of two children drinking bottled beverag...
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Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
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Anti-Prohibition Poster

Date: 1918
Description: A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty with her hands in the air and her torch falling towards the ground. Below her are six men pointing guns at her....
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David Marcou Photo Exhibition Poster

Date: 1987
Description: A poster advertising David Marcou's photography exhibit at the Pill Hill Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
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The Saga of Pabst Blue Ribbon Poster

Date: 1973
Description: An advertising poster for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. The poster features an image of a young man with a caption reading "our founder," a bottle of Pabst Blue ...
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"Sein oder nicht sein" (To Be or Not to Be) Film Poster

Date: 1955
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the American film. Abstract image of Adolf Hitler's face illustrated on half a broken egg shell shape, with four s...
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"El bulin" (Love Nest) Film Poster

Date: 1969
Description: Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of several people, including three couples, about to walk through a door. On the other side of the door are drinks...
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Horlick's Malted Milk For The Seven Ages

Date: 1900
Description: This advertisement features drawings of Shakespeare's Seven Ages beginning at the top left with: 'The Infant — "Perdita" Winter's Tale,' 'The Schoolboy — "...
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"Lower your standard of living — Pay your taxes!"

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Description: Cartoon figures drawn in color, with Uncle Sam holding a vacuum cleaner hose for sucking dollar bills away from a small figure, wearing only a barrel. Text...
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"S.O.B. Save Our Bartender"

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Description: Poster with a portrait of a man wearing a captain's style hat with the insignia of a bottle, and eyeglasses, with a beard and moustache, with a noose aroun...
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"We Dry You Out . . ."

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Description: Cartoon image of a man face-down and going through a hand-cranked wringer, with his face looking at a martini glass sitting in front of him. His tie and to...
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"I Gotta Put My Self Through the Wringer . . ."

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Description: Full-length caricature of a man in a suit and a hat facing left. Possibly a self-portrait. He is holding a hand-cranked clothes wringer behind his back. Te...
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Union House Tavern Poster

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Description: Unfinished drawing. A man in a Civil War Union uniform is running with a mug of beer while carrying a rifle and a pack. Text reads: "Since 1858." This refe...
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The Spirit of '18

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration imitating Archibald Willard's "The Spirit of '76," here with the three men carrying food. Text reads: "The World Cry, Food, Kee...

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