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Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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Advertising Poster for International Harvester Films

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for motion pictures [movies] shown "free to farmers and their families." Bears the text: "A Visit to a Modern Tractor Plant; The Making ...
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International Harvester Movie Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster for a film produced by the International Harvester Company about "how the American farmer throws off the shackles of Old Man Work by put...
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International Harvester Movie Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster for a film produced by International Harvester in which "the tractor's constructive influence is symbolized in typical scenes - plowing,...
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International Harvester Movie Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster for a film produced by International Harvester "showing in motion the dramatic events in the present-day Harvest Field." Includes the ti...
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International Harvester "Prospy" Advertising Poster

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising poster showing a little man with a corn cob body, a shield in the shape of the International Harvester logo, and a spear made of a stalk of gra...
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Farmall Poster

Date: 1929
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering Farmall. The poster reads: "If it isn't a McCORMICK-DEERING it isn't a FARMALL."
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International Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1953
Description: Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp...
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Canton Works Illustration

Date: 1919
Description: Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H...
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Genesis II Film Poster

Date: 1969
Description: Concert for the second installment of the Genesis film series, titled, "Cinematic Explorations". Poster features a naked woman riding a carrot over a puffy...
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Neil Young Promotional Poster

Date: 07 1972
Description: Poster created by Madison-based Johnathan Chritton, most likely to commemorate the release of the album "Harvest" (1972), featuring Neil Young playing an a...
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Gay Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at the Memorial Union's Old Madison Room. Donation fee of .50 requested. Additional graffitti reads "No Union Scabs...
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"Mr. Natural Talks 'Bout Lettuce"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi...
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For Your Boy

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th...
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The Cheapest Farm Power

Date: 1932
Description: Poster for McCormick-Deering's Farmall agricultural machinery and implements, advertising them as "The Cheapest Farm Power." The poster also features illus...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Advertising poster for the "Romance of the Reaper" film for use in Australia. The poster features an illustration of Cyrus Hall McCormick building the firs...
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Poster for "Shore Acres"

Date: 1893
Description: Color lithograph on paper. "James A. Herne in his Great Play" upper left, title and director upper right. Scene from play with Martin and Nathaniel Berry c...
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Poster for "Turn to the Right"

Date: 1917
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. The top caption reads: "For fun" and alongside it in larger letters is "Turn to the right." The "i" in Right" is depicted...
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Movie Poster for "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed.
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David Fine Freedom Committee

Date: 1976
Description: Poster advertising the David Fine Freedom Committee. David Fine was the youngest of the four men involved in the Sterling Hall bombing at the University of...

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