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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
| Date: | 07 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Poster with words "Holidays With Pay!" at the bottom illustrated by sketches of workers punching in to work and of people relaxing on a beach. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Union Label Trades Department poster with samples of shop cards and union buttons from various trades. Created by Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work... |
| Date: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the air show held to mark the dedication of the airport in Waukesha, an event sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. Present to dedica... |
| Date: | 03 1972 |
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| Description: | Diamond shaped, screen printed poster supporting George McGovern for United States President in the 1972 election. Includes the slogan, "The Farmer's Voice... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Poster urging the boycott of Kohler Company plumbing products, printed by striking Federal Labor Union No. 18545 in late 1934. Because the Company refused... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Handmade screen printed poster with a picture of a fist and the text "Boycott Non-UFWOC [United Farm Workers of America Organizing Committee] Lettuce". |
| Date: | 02 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi... |
| Date: | 03 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 4th of July celebration in Oostburg, Wisconsin. The featured entertainment consisted of acts for which the Ben Bergor Entertainment Agency w... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed. |
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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: | 04 1974 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a picket and rally in support of striking Hortonville teachers to be held at the State Department of Public Instruction building at 126 ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This advertisement features drawings of Shakespeare's Seven Ages beginning at the top left with: 'The Infant — "Perdita" Winter's Tale,' 'The Schoolboy — "... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Alfred Lawson, declaring that he is "Designer and Navigator of the First Airliner." Background image shows the Lawson Air Liner flying. I... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a mechanic standing and waving to a silhouette of an airplane taking off; in the background several more silhouetted airplan... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a a soldier holding his "Honorable Discharge" papers and reaching for the handle of a door. The door has a sign that re... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster text reads: "Are You Working? Your Country Needs You as a Soldier or as a Producer. Get a Job — Stick to It. Milwaukee County Council of Defense." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster with an image of Angela Davis. Her mouth is open as if speaking the words from the text printed on the black area that represents her hair. The text... |
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