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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph for International Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor featuring a model dressed as Betsy Ross sewing stars onto a U.S. flag. The ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 12 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr... |
| Date: | 08 28 1960 |
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| Description: | An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Employees of the W.T. Grant Company, 21 S. Pinckney Street, in costumes at their Halloween party. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration portrays a little girl being frightened by a little boy. The girl ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of New World Life Insurance Company employees at Christmas Party at Madison Club, 5 East Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Farmall tractors manufactured by the International Harvester Company. Includes a photograph of a man in the seat of an F-20 tractor ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K... |
| Date: | 12 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Blank receiving donated money for the Empty Stocking Club from newspaper carrier boy Gordon Schaaf in front of a Christmas tree. |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Mailman George A. Perkins receiving a purse containing 25 silver dollars from Marshall Browne, publisher of the East Side News, on the 25th anniversary of ... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering tillage tools featuring the headline: "Wherever Crops are Grown" and a color illustration of a man using a Farmal... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering featuring color illustrations of two grain binders at work in the field. The text on the poster reads, "McCormick-... |
| Date: | 05 22 1952 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin posing with a parking meter given to him for collecting donations to his empty stocking fund. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering tillage tools featuring a large illustration of a man using a tractor to pull two rotary hoes through a field. The... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering poster advertising corn shellers and feed grinders. The poster includes a color illustration of the No. 2 Cylinder Corn Sheller. At the b... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising all-steel threshers, featuring a color illustration of the machine in use. Also included is an illustration showing both faces of the Mc... |
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