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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A pig with a small saddle on his back. A Union flag is set in the middle of the saddle. On the side of the pig is the text: "WHOLE OR NONE." Blue and red i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An elephant wearing boots is carrying a banner that reads: "I ALWAYS WIN." The banner has a face on the left end and is holding up the elephant's tail with... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A man, probably Jefferson Davis, riding a pig carrying a sign that reads: "2d EDITION!!! 40,000 Killed, Wounded, THIS ONE MISSING! VIA CINCINNATI!" Blue in... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter decorated with holly, and a child following. The background is black, with light coming from ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Vernon Valley Farm, a breeder of Percheron and coach horses, shorthorn cattle, Berkshire hogs, Bronze turkeys, and Wyandotte chickens from Mt... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Plankinton Packing Company, a pork and beef packer and provision dealer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Includes an elevated view of the company b... |
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| Description: | Billhead of Burnett & Pratt, "dealers in fresh, salt and smoked meats, fish and game in season," of River Falls, Wisconsin, with a group of livestock, incl... |
| Date: | 01 25 1960 |
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| Description: | The Madison area scored top awards at the first Wisconsin Pacemaker Pork program held during the opening of Farm and Home Week. At left is Gilbert Mueller,... |
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| Description: | Front cover and back insert page from Eugene's restaurant in the Juneau Hotel, with an orange lobster holding a blue card in its tail with images of a stee... |
| Date: | 10 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Twelve-year-old Larry Beck, Jr. from Ixonia slapping the purple ribbon on his meat-type Poland China barrow after winning the grand champion honor at the S... |
| Date: | 03 07 2009 |
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| Description: | One-page menu for a special event dinner centered around the pre-industrial (heritage breed) pig. Presented by the Underground Food Collective and Morren F... |
| Date: | 04 25 2009 |
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| Description: | One-page menu for a pre-industrial (heritage breed) pig dinner, presented by Underground Food Collective. Features a profile view of a pig standing on a re... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Watertown Chamber of Commerce, with spot illustrations around the page of a dairy cow, potatoes, an ear of corn, a "mortgage lifter" hog,... |
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| Description: | Two-fold invitation to the Ice Chipper's annual ball. The front, with humorous text "Eugene Beckman Here's Lookin at Your Ice Hole," has a round hole cutou... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a mother pig with six piglets and rows of pigs at the bottom of the poster. Highlights of the text reads: "Just one ext... |
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| Description: | Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button... |
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