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Streetcar with Advertisement for the Film "Animal Crackers"
September 6, 1930
Banners and caricatures of the Marx Brothers adorn a streetcar advertising the film "Animal Crackers" at the RKO Capitol Theatre.
Horse-Drawn Cart Advertising Movie
September 24, 1932
Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats."
RKO Show Advertising
August 13, 1932
"RKO Greater Show Season" promotional truck with calliope, and signs advertising Raquel Torres in Fanchon and Marco's "Malibu Beach" and Jack Holt and Ralph Graves in "War Correspondent" at the RKO...
Stunt Car at the Dane County Fair
August 23, 1930
An audience in the grandstand at the Dane County Fair watches two men in a stunt automobile advertising the RKO film, "Dixiana."
Truck Advertising
September 19, 1930
Men are sitting in the cab of the Ed Klief Transfer Line truck, advertising the RKO Orpheum Theatre along with Klief's moving services, in front of the UW Meat Market, 728 University Avenue.
RKO Parade
February 27, 1931
RKO parade on the 700 block of University Avenue, with the McVicar Photo Studio, and RKO-lians band.
