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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraved letterhead of the firm of Smith, Mendel & Co., a wholesale grocery merchant. William E. Smith was a prominent Milwaukee businessman, partner in th... |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Christmas card greeting, "A Merry Christmas to you 1907". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Invoice of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee with an engraved illustration of the company warehouse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of Wendell Anderson, the mayor of La Crosse, with an engraving of city hall. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of David S. Rose, the mayor of Milwaukee, showing an engraving of Milwaukee City Hall. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 10 31 1858 |
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| Description: | Letter written both horizontally and vertically, from Catherine Steel of Genesee, Wisconsin to her sister-in-law Lilias. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the La Crosse National Bank, with an engraved image of the bank building at the top. |
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| Description: | A letter from Margaret Marsh of La Canada, California, to Senator William Proxmire that reads, "Dear Senator Proxmire, You are WONDERFUL! When I think back... |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted stationery showing the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1862. The blue tint on the dome may have been intended to represent the unfinished natur... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
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