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| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph featuring Buffalo Bill riding his horse. The poster was created for Buffalo Bill's Wild West circus show, as part of the Sells Floto... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the Northern Pacific Railway's Yellowstone Park line. Featuring the work of artist Edward Brener, the poster depicts the O... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the South Pacific System railway and southern California. Featuring the artist M. Gundlach, the poster depicts the rolling... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Atlantic City as "the playground of the world," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depicts the buildings ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the S.S. Leviathan as the "World's Largest Ship." The poster depicts an elevated view of a large number of tourists... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Virginia Historical Pageant, held in Richmond, VA, May 22-28, 1922. Featuring the Henry Day Lowry Metropolit... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | An original poster advertising the eleventh annual railroad picnic, taking place at Devil's Lake State Park on Saturday, July 27, 1889. In the advertiseme... |
| Date: | 07 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster for baseball game featuring the I.G.A. baseball team playing the Madison Colored Giants, a team with a state-wide reputation for presenting baseball... |
| Date: | 12 1967 |
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| Description: | A poster that was used in the Green Bay Packers' Sports Committee's "Go Pack Go - Go All the Way" advertising campaign for the 1967 post-season. On the bot... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for a performance by Madison magician Ben Bergor. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster on paper. At the top reads "The Dubinsky Corporation presents a new comedy of Youth," under which in larger letters is the title. U... |
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| Description: | A poster featuring a man in a tri-corner hat directing a group of people as they raise the frame of a barn. The text reads, "NEIGHBORS built America" and "... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A President Nixon re-election poster with approximately 360 signatures of athletes (appearing in alphabetical order) on it. At the top of the poster is the... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Political campaign poster that features a drawing of Richard Nixon surrounded by contemporary celebrities and politicians in the center. He is wearing a bu... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a... |
| Date: | 08 1986 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the 1986 New York Festival Latino, which was founded in 1976, produced by Joseph Papp, a Broadway producer, and directed by Oscar Ciccone ... |
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