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| Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
| Date: | 04 1854 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention at Young's Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 13th, 1854. The poster attempts to unite indivi... |
| Date: | 03 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place. |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ... |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and 1888 winner of "The Sequence Stakes." |
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| Description: | Cigarette advertising card produces by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is William Muldoon, wrestler. Muldoon learned how to wrestle in the Civil War camps of t... |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Allen and Ginters. John L Sullivan, boxer was considered to be the link between bare knuckles and glove fighting. Co... |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is Isaac Lewis, a jockey. Lewis rode in four consecutive Kentucky Derbies, 1886-1889, winn... |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and winner of "The Suburban 1886." |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Cards produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is Willie Harradon, a cyclist also known as "The Youthful Phenomenon." |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is W.J.M. Barry, Hammer Thrower. |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Cards produced Allen and Ginter. Depicted is John Morrell, a first baseman for Boston. |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is Edwin Bibby, a wrestler. |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is George Bubear, an English sculler. |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Old Judge Cigarettes. Depicted are Bill Krieg and Gus Klopf, two Minneapolis Millers baseball players. |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Trade Card produced by Old Judge Cigarettes. Depicted is L.F. Jevne, a baseball player from Minneapolis. |
| Date: | 05 30 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Osborne twine binder. Describes the results of a contest between the Osborne machine and machines made by McCormick, Deering, ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
| Date: | 12 13 1917 |
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| Description: | A color cartoon depicting Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as pro-German, showing Kaiser pinning medals on him. |
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| Description: | Advertisement picturing a white woman and an African American man with the title "The Real Criminals Are Those Who Preach Racial Integration." |
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