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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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William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1899
Description: Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom...
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Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
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International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 11 1954
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a photograph of Ronald Colman and Benita Hume with the tex...
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International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 01 1951
Description: Advertising proof created by Young and Rubicam for the International Harvester Company. Features a photograph of a man in a suit and men repairing Internat...
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Wish You a Merry Christmas

Date: 1951
Description: The inside of a holiday card. It shows the head of the company, D.C. (Clark) Everest, sitting at his desk. Four green frames across the top show different ...
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Yuletide Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Photographic holiday card featuring Carl Marty of the Northernaire Resort in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. He is famous for his hospitality and his "animal frien...
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Advertising Brochure for International School Buses

Date: 1935
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Features an illustration of a bus driver holding the door open for students to enter.
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National 4-H Club Contest Flyer

Date: 1935
Description: Advertising flyer promoting the National 4-H Club Farm Accounting Contest. The flyer describes prizes provided by International Harvester Company, and incl...
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O.L. Oleson, Agent

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Description: Advertising card for O.L. Oleson of Ramona, Wisconsin who sold patent medicines. The card features a photograph of Oleson seated in a wagon advertising Wil...
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International D-40 Truck Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising brochure for International D-40 trucks, featuring a color illustration of men stacking lumber near a D-40 stake body truck. Two other men stand...
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International KB-5 Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 03 1948
Description: Magazine advertisement for International trucks, showing three men and a KB-5 truck bearing a "triple-diamond service" emblem or logo. Also includes the te...
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International KB and KBR Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 09 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of two men looking at a chart of six truck models, including the KB-8, the KBR-1...
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Make Way for International

Date: 1940
Description: Sales flyer advising International truck dealers how to compete against used truck sales. Includes cartoon illustrations of a man ordering another to leave...
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"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) and Dan Priest (playing a bus driv...
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Tractor Tilling Newsletter

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cover of the Volume 1, Number 2 issue of Tractor Tilling newsletter, produced by the Smith Form-a-Tractor Company. The cover features a photograph o...
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Samson Automobile Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Advertisement for the Samson nine-passenger automobile featuring a photograph of men and women sitting in the car.
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A Velocipede of Fifty Years Ago

Date: 03 06 1869
Description: Engraved image of a man in a top hat and tails riding a velocipede. Another rider is in the background.
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Supper Menu

Date: 03 21 1901
Description: Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d...
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Lunch Menu

Date: 03 23 1901
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop...

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