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| Date: | 04 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Howard Morey posing in an airplane that advertised Pennco Oil, his distributorship of Waco airplanes, and his flying school. Two women sit in front of him.... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | A newspaper advertisement prepared by the Foote, Cone and Belding agency for the American Tobacco Co. The ad features a product endorsement for Lucky Stri... |
| Date: | 03 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Conley, staff director of the Mautz Home Decoration Service, sitting at a desk in her office at 939 East Washington Avenue. |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti... |
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| Description: | About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill. |
| Date: | 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome... |
| Date: | 01 31 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack McCarron (left), Mae Boyd, Mrs. Irv Skoyen and Mrs. D.W. Kirner, employees of the Pure Oil Co. Madison office, are leaving the company or being t... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front and back of advertising cards for the Excelsior Gleaner and Binder. Front features illustrations of a man using the machinery in a field. The back fe... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man using a Light Running Plano in a field with two horses. Around the border are illustrations of types of le... |
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