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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A Ringling Brothers poster of "Kings of the Circus World", depicting Alf. T., Al., Chas., John and Otto Ringling. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Service Bureau poster for speaker "Frank Stockdale, The Mirthful Orator With A Message." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for speaker Frank Stockdale and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertaini... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for speaker Frank Stockdale and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertaini... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
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| Description: | Civil War commemorative roster of Company A, 47th Wisconsin Infantry. |
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| Description: | Civil War commemorative roster of Company E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 11 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Republican candidate Joseph R. McCarthy, for U.S. Senate from Wisconsin. His image is a painted portrait. |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for Black Roots Black Art event held at Chadbourne Hall. Image is a woodblock print of an African American face. Featured work from Henry Hawkins, J... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a May Day demonstration in Washington, D.C. Features an image of Sitting Bull. |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster of Che Guevara based on a famous photograph from 1960 by Alberto Korda. Created by RPM printing co-op in Madison, Wisconsin, using a crosshatching t... |
| Date: | 01 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing an art exhibition of portraits by the University of Wisconsin-Madison M.F.A. candidate Christin Nelson. The poster features a high contr... |
| Date: | 07 12 |
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| Description: | Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" fea... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the "Route of the Empire Builder," by way of the Great Northern Railroad, and promoting travel to Glacier Nation... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Lithographed Civil War roster of the 31st Regiment, including insets of the Battle of Somerset or Millspring, Kentucky, and Pea Ridge, Arkansas. |
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| Description: | The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed. |
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| Description: | A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission... |
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