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| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo... |
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| Description: | Cover of an English-language tourist brochure entitled "Imperial Hotel Tokio." The brief text does not mention the hotel's famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wr... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Image of a man seated at a desk reading a Western Union telegram informing him that he has won $200,000 in a lottery. Text reads, "Everyone is born to a ch... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Advertisement entitled "Sport Fun For Sport Fans!". It includes a photograph of comic artist Jay Orving and the character Bozo Blimp. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company. There is an engraving of a train and a list of the officers of the company. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for La Crosse Happy Farmer Tractor (Models A and B) featuring color illustration of tractors. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for La Crosse Tractor (Line Control Model M) featuring color illustration of tractor. |
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| Description: | The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ... |
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| Description: | La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with multiple inserts. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
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| Description: | Two-sided playing card used for advertising by magician Howard Thurston (d. 1936), arguably the greatest magician of his day. The reverse side of the card ... |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Dell O'Dell, one of a few professional female magicians. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Buchanan & Griffin, of Arkansaw, Wisconsin, dealers in "Shelf and Heavy Hardware." Features an interior view of a clerk waiting on a customer... |
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| Description: | Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Madison Fire Insurance Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with five different typefaces, distinct fields, elaborate capital letters "F" and "... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "International Union of the United Brewery Workmen of America, Union Made Beer, Ale a... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Certificate submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Hotel and Restaurant Employes International Alliance and Bartenders Internatio... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Kreme-O-Maltz, Light Hop Flavor, Malt Syrup." Distributed by the Oshkosh Maltz Produ... |
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