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Wisconsin State Fair Poster

Date: 1900
Description: Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Arcade Toys Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering miniature models produced by Arcade Toys. Includes illustrations of a toy tractor, plow, and wagon drawn by horses...
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Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1914
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ...
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Champion Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Champion brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements, including a larger col...
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Buffalo Hunt, Approaching in a Ravine

Date: 1844
Description: Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11).

"This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou...

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Deering Columbian Exposition Advertising Poster

Date: 1893
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustration of a crowd gathered around a Deering grain binder and mower at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Celebration of Life Festival Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for the "Celebration of Life" music festival, held June 21 through 28, 1971, 150 miles north of New Orleans. Poster features two colorfu...
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Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus Poster

Date: 08 1972
Description: Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, advertised as the World's largest, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Groun...
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Circus Parade Poster

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Description: Colorful poster depicting parade with circus wagons in foreground, and circus tents in the background. "Seal Brothers gorgeous gift to all-at noon a Mammot...
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Circus Poster

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Description: Circus poster "Christy Bros. 5 Ring Wild Animal Show."
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Circus Poster

Date: 07 12
Description: Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" fea...
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Poster

Date: 1920
Description: An original lithograph featuring Buffalo Bill riding his horse. The poster was created for Buffalo Bill's Wild West circus show, as part of the Sells Floto...
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Far West National Parks, USA and Canada Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek...
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Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
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Co-op Poster

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Description: A poster featuring a man in a tri-corner hat directing a group of people as they raise the frame of a barn. The text reads, "NEIGHBORS built America" and "...
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Gargantua the Great

Date: 1938
Description: Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a...
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"Čtyři pravdy" (Three Fables of Love) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "Les quatres vérités." Collage image of a black cat with green eyes. The cat is wearing a lace collar with ...
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"Das Dorf am Fluss" (Village by the River) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: German film poster for the Dutch film, "Dorp aan de rivier." Silhouetted image in white of a man riding a horse, with a village in the background with a bl...
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"Winter Wind" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Hungarian film, "Sirokkó." Illustrated image of the faces of two women and a man, with o...
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Ducks Unlimited Poster

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Description: Poster for Ducks Unlimited, depicting a duck bowing its head with its bill under a wing. There is a band on the duck's leg. Below, text reads: "Don't Duck ...

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