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Human-Headed Insects

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Description: Insect art work in which the artist placed cut-outs of people's faces on top of the insect heads.
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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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You Blow the Powder

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Description: Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose thro...
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Ne-rucha-ja Feast Program

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a program for a feast and pow-wow in support of the Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary group's attempt to preserve Frost's Woods (Ne-rucha-ja)....
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Komis Club Ginger Ale

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Description: Komis Club Extra Dry Ginger Ale label. The label features a drawing of a Native American woman wearing a headdress with a single feather and holding a glas...
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Happy Way Malt Syrup

Date: 1929
Description: Label from a can of Happy Way brand dark, hop flavored malt syrup. Picture on the label shows a woman wearing an apron and holding a can of the malt syrup ...
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MADD Stickers

Date: 1985
Description: Two stickers promoting Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) with a drawing of a car with a martini glass in front of it and a circle-backslash symbol (proh...
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Packers Official Program

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an official program for the football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Cardinals played at Wisconsin State Fair Park. The cover f...
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Christmas Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
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Four-fold card "In Memory of My Mother"

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Description: Four-fold, copy art card with front panel shows a religious statue of a woman sheltering three children under her mantle. On the inside, the left panel a b...
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Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

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Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in green on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside graphic is a line-drawing cartoon of an ice fisherm...
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Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1953
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in gold ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is humorous play on the fisherman as ...
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Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
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Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1955
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in red ink on white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is a cartoon of a warmly dressed man expir...
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Invitation to Ice Chippers Farewell

Date: 1957
Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers, an ice fishing club of Gisholt Machine Company, to a farewell dinner for Albert LaGrille. The cartoon shows warmly dressed men...
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"Love Never Forgives A Sin Against Itself"

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Description: Two-fold, printed card. One half is a photograph of one chimpanzee clinging tightly to another that has the face of Sid's superimposed on the body. This se...
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"Some Times It's Hard to Pick Up A Buck!" Exterior

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Description: Two-fold graphic creation by Sid, exterior front and back. The front pictures a photograph of Sid looking down at a dollar bill on the ground. He is holdin...
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Ice Chipper's Annual Ball Invitation

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Description: Two-fold invitation to the Ice Chipper's annual ball. The front, with humorous text "Eugene Beckman Here's Lookin at Your Ice Hole," has a round hole cutou...

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