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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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La Follette, Sr. Engraving

Date: 1904
Description: An engraved head and shoulders portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., during the period when he was the governor of Wisconsin.
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What The United States Has Fought For

Date: 1914
Description: A cartoon depicting the rescue of oppressed people by the United States, entitled: "What The United States Has Fought For".
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Tracteurs Deering

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,...
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A Sure-Fire Winner

Date: 06 17 1929
Description: Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co...
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Goodrich Steamship Lines

Date: 1930
Description: Cover from Goodrich Steamship Lines schedule, with a picture of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel against the Chicago skyline and a beach scene in th...
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Willson Monarch Labs Salesman Card

Date: 1935
Description: Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s...
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International TD-24 Advertising Brochure

Date: 1948
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for an International TD-24 diesel crawler tractor ("TracTracTor") with "planet power steering." The ad shows two men with ...
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Doomed Demons

Date: 1935
Description: "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b...
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Transamerican Airlines Schedule

Date: 04 01 1932
Description: A schedule of Transamerican Airlines covering its service to Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and other Great Lakes cities. The unfolded schedule depicts two p...
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Andrew Carnegie

Date: 1902
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Andrew Carnegie.
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Russian Farm Scenes

Date: 1910
Description: Fragment from a Russian advertising poster with a color illustration of men working on a farm with a horse-powered hay press.
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Russian Farm Scenes

Date: 1910
Description: Fragment from a Russian advertising poster with a color illustration of men using horses and disk harrows to perform farm work.
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A Practical Farm Power House

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising illustration for International power units. The original caption reads: "With an I. H. C. engine, a few feet of shafting and belting, it is p...
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Hank Aaron Cartoon

Date: 1954
Description: Cartoon of young Hank Aaron swinging a bat, surrounded by other images of him, and text. Aaron broke his ankle as a major league rookie, on Sept. 5, 1954. ...
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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi...
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Buckeye Farm Wagons Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buckeye farm wagons sold by International Harvester. The cover features an image of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon o...
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Mechanical Irrigation Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester mechanical irrigation equipment. Features an illustration of two men standing next to a ...
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International Cub Cadet Hydrostatic 123 Advertisement

Date: 1966
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising the International Cub Cadet Hydrostatic 123 lawn and garden tractor. The color illustration features a man in a cardi...
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International Cub Cadet Hydrostatic Drive Advertisement

Date: 1966
Description: Page from a brochure advertising the International Cub Cadet Hydrostatic 123 lawn and garden tractor. Extols the virtues of the automatic transmission, al...

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