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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Albert Kaepernick Jr.'s McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. A poster in the front window reads: "Throw your scrap into the fight!". |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
| Date: | 09 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Bernhard "Bernie" Mautz, president, general manager, and founder of the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, at his desk. Mr. Mautz was chairman of Madison's 1... |
| Date: | 11 1972 |
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| Description: | Vietnam anti-war poster proclaiming that the human cost of the war has been six million people under Nixon's term as President. Features a picture of Presi... |
| Date: | 11 1972 |
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| Description: | Polemical political poster advocating Karl Armstrong for District Attorney of Wisconsin. Text reads, "We will be free. We see the AMRC blast as more than j... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of John J. Blied & Sons promoting victory gardens and featuring seed packets, hoes, and watering cans. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Richard Bosold, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 16 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic school, delivers one of the civil defense posters to Robert Schmitz, gener... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier with his gear, adjusting his helmet while standing behind sandbags. On his belt is a gas mask. Poster text re... |
| Date: | 09 03 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster providing information about draft registration in the twenty-third district of Milwaukee. Includes map of the district showing precinct boundaries a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Honor roll poster for service members from Fond du Lac county. Includes an American flag. In addition to the list of names, poster text reads: "Fond du Lac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting a war fund drive in Marathon County, bordered by American flags and logos for the "Marathon County War Fund, Back the Boys," featuring an ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an image of a boy and girl standing together. The boy is wearing a sailor suit and holding an American flag. Poster text reads: "Our Daddy... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster reproducing an open letter from Walter Kohler on behalf of the Sheboygan County Liberty Loan Committee, to the citizens of Sheboygan County, informi... |
| Date: | 04 1918 |
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| Description: | Several young men stand around a kiosk decorated with American flags. One is dressed as Uncle Sam. Behind, them, young men and women are standing. A War Sa... |
| Date: | 05 1918 |
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| Description: | An exhibit inside a building displaying examples of how to make meals for "a patriot's table," as well as the relative value of different foods. A handmade... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | "Make good the promise" is across the top of the poster with the Red Cross insignia between "good" and "promise." The poster reads: make good the promi... |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Anti-military protestors demonstrating outside U.W. Camp Randall stadium during a review of ROTC cadets. Posters challenge compulsory service in the state ... |
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