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Poster

Fast-Hitch Promotion

Date: 1953
Description: Window streamer for the Fast-Hitch promotion.
Photograph

National Food Store Nestle's Promotion

Date: 02 06 1952
Description: A special promotion display of Hot Nestle's cocoa mix stands at a National Food Store. Other merchandise displays can also be seen.
Photograph

Kroger Store Flower Bulb Promotion

Date: 02 06 1952
Description: Two store employees of a Kroger store stand by an Old Dutch cleanser promotion for gladiolus bulbs in a store in Lancaster. Other merchandise displays incl...
Poster

International "Mid-Century Promotion" Advertising Poster

Date: 1950
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester's "mid-century promotion" featuring a line drawing of a white Farmall C demonstrator tractor. Includes the t...
Print

White Farmall Advertisement

Date: 1950
Description: Inside spread of an advertising flyer promoting International Harvester's "Mid-Century Promotion." The flyer features a color illustration of a white Farma...
Photograph

Farmall Cub Tractor with Mid-Century Placards

Date: 1950
Description: McCormick Farmall Cub tractor with "Mid-Century Promotion" advertising placards on hood and wheels. Similar placards were used on the limited edition White...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Milwaukee's father of deep waterway relates history of its promotion here

Date: 1932-07-31
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Photograph

Flipping Pancakes

Date: 06 11 1989
Description: Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
Photograph

Nu-Enamel Paint Promotion

Date: 05 14 1934
Description: Man standing next to an automobile outfitted with signs advertising Nu-Enamel paint.
Photograph

St. Cloud Combine Promotion

Date: 1955
Description: Men and a boy examining a prototype "Tractor of the Future" in an exhibit during the St. Cloud combine promotion. Signs hanging around the display read: "L...
Photograph

Dairy Products Exhibit

Date: 08 1948
Description: The Department of Agriculture's Cheese promotion booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The booth urges consumers to "Serve Wisconsin Dated Cheese."...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 10 1986
Description: Cranberry harvest.
Photograph

International Truck Dealer and Salesman

Date: 09 20 1938
Description: International dealer and a sales promotion man talking things over outside the Younger Motor Truck Company dealership building. The dealer, George Younger ...
Photograph

Baton Twirlers Promote Milk

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Near the Department of Agriculture's Milk House, two baton twirlers in an obvious promotion photograph sit on top of a car and raise their paper cups of mi...
Print

Tillie Twine's Criss-Cross Cover

Date: 1949
Description: Promotional advertisement available through the International Harvester Advertising Service for use by International Harvester dealers, part of the 1949 Tw...
Print

Hunter's Magnetic Saline Fountain Water Advertisement

Date: 
Description: Advertisement for Hunter's Magnetic Saline Fountain Water which was being given away as promotion by an agent in Fond du Lac. The water supposedly cured rh...
Obituary

King, Franklin, Hiram

Date: 1848 - 1911
County: Dane
Photograph

St. Cloud Combine Promotion

Date: 1955
Description: Tour of International Harvester's East Moline Works (factory) for the St. Cloud combine promotion. Original caption reads: "There are hundreds of inspectio...
Photograph

Cheese-Mobile

Date: 1964
Description: Principals in the "world's largest cheese" promotion, study the artist's sketch of the "Cheese-Mobile" that will send the cheese to the New York World's Fa...
Print

Homer Hemp, Susie Sisal, and Tillie Twine Family Story

Date: 1949
Description: Promotional advertisement available through the International Harvester Advertising Service for use by International Harvester dealers, part of the 1949 Tw...

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