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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
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A Merry Christmas!

Date: 1880
Description: Holiday card with ribbons, flowers and fruit. On the ribbon are the words: "A Merry Christmas!" Chromolithograph.
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Valentine Greetings

Date: 1940
Description: Valentine's Day "secret pal" card with a peach on the front, and a cake and plum on the inside (all shown). The peach has long eyelashes, red lipstick and ...
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Reynolds Brothers, Inc. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Reynolds Brothers of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, growers and packers of fresh, frozen, and canned Door County cherries, with a leafy branch lade...
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Hotel Badger Dinner Menu

Date: 10 29 1908
Description: Front cover and menu listing from the Hotel Badger, with an etching of a fox sitting on the ground looking up at a bunch of grapes hanging on a vine over a...
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Menu for Dinner in Honor of President-Elect Warren G. Harding

Date: 12 04 1920
Description: Menu for dinner honoring President-Elect Warren G. Harding by the citizens of Newport News, Virginia, at the Hotel Warwick. On the cover is a framed quarte...
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Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
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L'Etoile Restaurant Farmers' Market Dinner Menu

Date: 1994
Description: One-page menu for a dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant based on ingredients sourced from the farmers market, with listings of farms and farmers, as well as illu...
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Date: 1570
Description: Frontispiece for Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570, and considered the first modern atlas. Title is surrounded by four figures r...
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Chalet on the Lake Menu

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Description: One-page menu for Chalet on the Lake, with a colored pen-and-ink still life of a vase of flowers and greenery on a table set with bottles of wine, wine gla...
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Madison Sourdough Company Fall Menu

Date: 2013
Description: Double-sided menu for the bakery and cafe, Madison Sourdough Company, (MSCo.) with still-life illustrations in color of fruits, fall leaves, nuts, squash, ...
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L'Etoile Restaurant 20th Anniversary Dinner Menu

Date: 08 1996
Description: One-page menu for the twentieth anniversary of L'Etoile Restaurant, with a side illustration of vegetables, fruit, leaves, and other plant life.
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L'Etoile Restaurant Wine Dinner Menu

Date: 01 15 1999
Description: One-page menu for a wine dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant with vintner Heidi Schrock and importer Terry Theise, with a side illustration by Rebekkah Luce of g...
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L'Etoile Restaurant Earth Day 25th Anniversary Menu

Date: 05 04 1995
Description: One-page menu from L'Etoile Restaurant honoring the twenty-fifth anniversaries of Earth Day and Wisconsin's Environmental Decade and Earth Day founder and ...
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L'Etoile Restaurant Reading Between the Wines Menu

Date: 08 30 2000
Description: Front and back of menu from a Reading Between the Wines dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant, with a translucent overlay with the menu listing and a backing card ...
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L'Etoile Restaurant Farmers' Market Dinner Menu

Date: 10 24 1992
Description: Front and back of a menu for a farmers' market dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant, featuring apples and pears and other products from local growers, with a bord...
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L'Etoile Restaurant Menu Sampler Exterior

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Description: Leaflet from L'Etoile Restaurant with the restaurant logo and a sample menu for spring, with a border illustration of a strawberry plant.
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L'Etoile Restaurant Menu Sampler Interior

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Description: Menu sampler interior from L'Etoile Restaurant, with summer, autumn, and winter menus, and accompanying border illustrations of leaves, plants, and fruit.

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