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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | French-language poster advertising Deering seeders. The poster shows two-color illustrations of grain drills, or seeders, and the headline: "McCormick Semo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | French-language poster advertising McCormick rakes and tedders. The poster features color illustrations of a hay rake and hay tedder along with text descri... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | French-language poster advertising the McCormick 7B mower. The poster features a color illustration of the mower with an inset close-up of the machine's ge... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map of Wisconsin, with hand-colored portions showing the surveys completed from 1873 to 1875. Although the title and legend are in Wel... |
| Date: | 05 25 1956 |
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| Description: | Assistant hostesses at the YWCA benefit tea for internationally speaking foreign students are left to right: Nan Rasmussen, Linda Bacon, Evelyn Gaumnitz an... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Published in Germany a year after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows prairies, swamps, lakes, mounds, limestone deposits, and lead and copper mine... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I... |
| Date: | 04 23 1906 |
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| Description: | Grain binder on the floor of an IH factory, probably the McCormick Works. At the top is a directional sign for employees in three different languages; Czec... |
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| Description: | Map shows roads, railroads, rivers, and improved farms. Includes text on lands for sale and exchange by B.W. Pulling, successor to Marshfield Land Company.... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a German screening of Emile de Antonio's 1968 documentary film "In the Year of the Pig," about the Vietnam War. Poster is designed like ... |
| Date: | 1570 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece for Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570, and considered the first modern atlas. Title is surrounded by four figures r... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
| Date: | 1798 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Egypt. Map title appears on bottom left as a carving in stone next ... |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of Guey Sam menu, with the name of the restaurant in a red heart (characters) and a column-shaped decorative field (English... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Polish movie poster advertising the exhibition of the 1957 Walt Disney film "Old Yeller." Poster includes a colored drawing of a dog. Poster text reads: ... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Information about the Toechter Institut in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | A color program for the film "Riot in Cell Block 11" in Italian (Rivolta al Blocco 11). The cover shows two men attacking another man. An oversized image o... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover, in Spanish, featuring an illustration of trees framing a view of a man working in a field with two horses and a harvesting machine. Text at ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Finnish language catalog, featuring an illustration of an enlarged three leafed clover which is surrounded by clover flowers, wheat and a dragonfly. Small ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Both sides of a Deering advertising card in English and French. One side has an illustration of a man wearing a suit riding on an Ideal Mower drawn by a te... |
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