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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ... |
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| Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
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| Description: | Lulu Glaser (1874-1958), renowned Victorian/Edwardian comedic actress and singer. |
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| Description: | Queenie Vassar (1870-1960) Scottish-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1930s and 1940s. |
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| Description: | Miss Batchelor, aspiring actress around the turn of the 19th century. |
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| Description: | Jennie Goldthwaite, a performer from around the turn of the century. |
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| Description: | Anna Neagle [Florence Marjorie Robertson] (1904-1986), started as a dancer and became a popular film actress. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Stuart Robson (1861-1924), actress, started her career as Miss May Waldron. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
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| Description: | Cut and pasted design for Wisconsin Promotional Bureau logo. |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising The Quick and The Dead, described as "an exciting documentary series on the atomic bomb starring Bob Hope as Mr. Average Citizen." It ... |
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| Description: | Back fold of a Wisconsin Dells promotional brochure featuring a simplified Wisconsin highway map with directions to the Dells, and a drawing of a family dr... |
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| Description: | Advertisement promoting Kraft cheese as a picnic food for visitors to Kraftwood Gardens. The advertisement is on the inside back cover of A guide to Kr... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover art for a pamphlet advertising The Apostle Islands and Lake Superior. The upper half of the artwork depicts a sunset view of Lake Superior, and the b... |
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| Description: | Wood engraving advertisement of a souvenir teaspoon bearing the likeness of Old Abe, the Wisconsin Civil War eagle, on the handle. Text reads "For sale by... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a hooked muskellunge leaping out of the water. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a Native American sitting cross-legged, wearing a headdress, buckskin, and moccasins, and holding a calumet p... |
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| Description: | Promotional stamp for Wisconsin tourism. Shows the outline of the state with an arrow crossing from northeast to southwest and bears the slogan "relax in W... |
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