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McCormick's Prize Harvesters

Date: 1868
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for C.H. McCormick and Brothers, featuring an engraved illustration of man operating a horse-drawn mower. Includes the text...
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Electricity in a Bottle

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and n...
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Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator Advertisement

Date: 1878
Description: Newspaper advertisement for Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator for diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. A long list of diseases the tonic treated is wr...
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Rambler Bicycle Ad Detail

Date: 12 1893
Description: Portion of a Rambler Bicycle advertisement showing a Roman style female statue holding up a bicycle.
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Dousman Wedding Announcement

Date: 11 19 1873
Description: Nina Lynn Sturgis and Hercules Louis Dousman's wedding announcement, "At Home" card and envelope with an "S" and a "D" intertwined on the flap. The ceremon...
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German Passenger Ship Advertising

Date: 1858
Description: Advertisement printed in German for a ship from Bremen to New York with $24 fare. There is a woodcut of a sailing ship at the top.
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Wisconsin Seal

Date: 1849
Description: Version of the Wisconsin Seal found in The American's Own Book, 1849. It depicts a plow and a bundle of wheat in the foreground, and a steamship on ...
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Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin as found in American Farmer, vol. 9.

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