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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Industiral safety sign or poster promoting "Safety First" as the "best medicine" for factory workers during "No-Accident-Week". The sign reads: "The Best M... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign illustrated with a cream separator. The poster advocates employee safety at International Harvester's Weber Works. The sig... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign featuring pin-up girls. The poster reminds factory workers to wear their safety goggles. The poster reads: "O Baby! Can yo... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial health and safety sign or poster warning against the dangers of drinking mixtures with alcohol. The sign reads: "Warning; Do not drink any mixtu... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Harvester poster advertising home canning and offering free books. The sign reads: "Canning Means Saving, Saving Means Money. Ask Your Wife, ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Safety Week poster featuring a photograph of a woman with the slogan: "Do It For Me". The poster reads: "Do It For Me. October 20 t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Harvester industrial safety sign featuring an illustration of a mother and child with the slogan: "Do It For Us." The sign reads: "Do It For ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Deering Works industrial safety poster featuring a photograph of a blind man, reminding employees to use their safety goggles while at work. The sign reads... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign warning factory workers against taking chances. The poster is illustrated with the image of funeral procession consisting ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety sign or poster featuring the "grim reaper" and advising factory workers to "be a booster for safety." The sign reads: "Gambling With Fate... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H... |
| Date: | 06 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Display panel used in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. The panel illustrates the technological advancements... |
| Date: | 11 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) protest in Detroit, November 3, 1970. Text at the top reads: "Nov. 3 — Elections Are A Hoax!" Handwritten on the le... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Sign board used for protest in the wake of the Sterling Hall bombing that reads, "AMRC The Real Murderers,"in watercolor. |
| Date: | 12 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating for the release of the Camp McCoy 3--Tom Chase, Steve Geden, and Daniel Kreps, 3 GI's--for their involvement in the bombing of Camp McCoy... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 35, "Crowd with Banners." The poster features a determined crowd of American civilians from all walks of life holding up signs in suppo... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Poster for use in International Harvester's truck dealerships advertising "$360 for the Chassis F.O.B. Factory - Taxes Extra." |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Poster for use in International Harvester truck dealerships advertising "A Half-Ton International." |
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