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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Union Label Trades Department poster with samples of shop cards and union buttons from various trades. Created by Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room. |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Colored drawing including animals and trees used as background for a toy display, H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Colored drawing featuring animals is a background for a toy display, H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | One of two pencil sketches submitted by Leon Pescheret of Whitewater, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin Centennial Committee to be considered for the Wisconsin C... |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | One of two pencil sketches submitted by Leon Pescheret of Whitewater, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin Centennial Committee to be considered for the Wisconsin C... |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch submitted by Leon Pescheret of Whitewater, Wisconsin to the Wisconsin Centennial Committee to be considered for the Wisconsin Centennial Comm... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisonsin Centennial Commemorative three cent stamp issued May 29, 1948. The stamp was designed by Victor McCloskey of the US Postal Service. |
| Date: | 03 18 1944 |
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| Description: | George I. Wallace, signmaker, making signs at his shop at 439 West Main Street. He wrote an editorial column for the newspaper, "A Layman's View of Religio... |
| Date: | 03 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Native American artist working at an easel, taken for WHA, the Wisconsin State radio station. |
| Date: | 02 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Front cover of "Wisconsin: a Guide to the Badger State" featuring a Harold Hone photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol with gilding on the dome. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Campaign card promoting Carl Zeidler for the office of Mayor of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a landscape of red abstract shapes along the bottom and left-hand side of the page. |
| Date: | 08 1942 |
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| Description: | Illustration art of a machine operator in work clothes and a billed cap with safety goggles standing next to a Type S Dynetric Balancer at the Howell Elect... |
| Date: | 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Illustrative art showing a close-up of a man's dress shoe strapped onto a roller skate with leather bindings. A pants cuff and hint of an argyle sock are v... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | World War II poster published by the National Education Association, showing a teacher working at a globe with a girl and a boy. The boy is holding a book ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Julius Heil reelection brochure calling the people of Wisconsin his bosses. Likely in reaction to a 1940 recall campaign aimed at Heil for stati... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Greetings From Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." A Large Letter Postcard with a blue and orange background, each letter is filled with a s... |
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