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| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold... |
| Date: | 01 02 1953 |
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| Description: | Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a group of travellers in a car colliding with a steamroller. The travellers have been thrown out of their car and into the air. The words... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, and promoting Haddon Hall and the Wye Valley as "The Peak Distr... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline looking down at three men posing on a paddle steamer ferry boat carrying an automobile. The boat has the words "Cassville" and "Dewey" ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Three people sit in pink and white lounge chairs on a large outdoor patio surrounded by green plants and trees. Emile de Antonio sits next to socialite Mar... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man... |
| Date: | 11 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Full page illustrated article in the Milwaukee Journal titled "The World Voyagers go Round The Globe by Radio and Roto." Included are photographs an... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A souvenir photograph of Frank B. and Louise Morilla Mears Fargo, taken in Atlantic City. The couple is posing against a prop split rail fence in front of ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertisement and timetable for the Peninsula & Northern Navigation Co. of Milwaukee. The S.S. United States and the S.S. Arizona... |
| Date: | 08 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Boy Scout Corps posing for a group portrait prior to leaving on a trip to Florida to compete in the VFW national competition. The Scouts are... |
| Date: | 03 1913 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman is standing on the steps of the Havana Cathedral. She is wearing a hat, a long, light-colored dress, and dark gloves. There are sever... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph of a woman buying a necklace from a Native American man. Horseback riders are in the distance. Text at bottom reads: "Land of Histor... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Map of the United States with tour route taken by the Chicago Civic Opera Company indicated in red. The company traveled on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad S... |
| Date: | 07 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Several people posing outside a Flying Tiger Line airplane, on the ground and on the airstair. The airstair has logos for Northwest Airlines. Caption reads... |
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