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Artic Frozen Custard, Label

Date: 06 12 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features an Eskimo in a yellow coat and hat eating an ice cream cone. In the backgrou...
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Polar Frozen Custard Label

Date: 07 02 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features a polar bear licking a large ice cream cone. There are floating blocks of ic...
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Ice Skating at Dunham School

Date: 1945
Description: A group of six children play on a frozen pond on the right. The Dunham School and trees appear inside a fence on the left, and the ground is covered with s...
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Boys Playing Ice Hockey

Date: 1945
Description: Three boys play ice hockey on a frozen pond. One boy has fallen and is sitting on the ice. Snow covers the ground, with some grass peeking through. A fence...
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Man Fishing Indoors

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Description: A man clad a long coat, boots and a hat is sitting in a rocking chair indoors. While smoking a cigarette, he is holding a small fishing rod over a fish bow...
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"An Invitation, Automation on Ice!"

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Description: Cartoon of warmly dressed men working on conveyor belt on a frozen lake. Fish on a stringer are being pulled up from a hole in the ice onto the conveyor be...
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Ice Fishing Can Kill You!

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Description: Two elephants and two worms are swimming underwater below an ice fisherman. The tipsy looking man, dressed like Santa's elf in a red hat with a white pom-p...
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"The Die Hards"

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Description: Two men, Sid and his good friend Gene Beckman, fishing from a boat in a cold, stormy weather. One man is rowing with ice-covered oars, and the other man is...
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Invitation to Ice Chippers Gathering

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Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers in black ink, white tempura and blue paint on orange card. It is a drawing of Gene Beckman in a black hooded winter coat, kneel...
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Steam Ice Car

Date: 1859
Description: Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, the Lady Franklin operating on a frozen river. Male passengers and crew members are standing on t...
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Ice Locomotive Pulled by Anchor

Date: 1859
Description: Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, Lady Franklin being pulled from water onto ice using its anchor. The vessel was built, but never ...
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Wiard's Ice Locomotive Entering Frozen River

Date: 1859
Description: Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, Lady Franklin leaving a snowy riverbank and entering the frozen river. The vessel was built, but ...

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