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Tall-tale Postcard: Some Style

Date: 1913
Description: Two men are pulling a giant fish over a wooden fence. They are on the shore of a lake. On the ground beside the men rests a pile of several other giant fis...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Our Barn is Full

Date: 1912
Description: Several women and a man are outside of a barn, which is overflowing with giant onions, corn, and potatoes. A ladder is placed against the large stack of on...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Out for Air

Date: 1923
Description: Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Landing a Pike, Attica, Wis.

Date: 1910
Description: A group of men on a lakeshore grapple with a giant pike. Two men pull on a rope hooked to the pike while two more stand ready with harpoon-like sticks. Ano...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Loading Cabbage

Date: 10 30 1909
Description: A group of male laborers load a giant cabbage up a ramp and onto a train car. The side of the train says "Wisconsin and Michigan." A pile of other giant ca...
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Ralph Nader Lecture

Date: 02 01 1971
Description: Poster advertising a talk by Ralph Nader at Ripon College. Topics addressed: corporate responsibility and consumer protection.
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Tall-tale Postcard: String Beans

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in front of a large pile of giant string beans. Red text in the upper portion of the image reads, "How we do things at Ihlen, Minn."
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Warning to Traitors

Date: 04 21 1861
Description: "Warning to Traitors." A threatening handbill warning against treasonable and dangerous utterances, signed by the "Vigilance Committee."
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Hunter's Magnetic Saline Fountain Water Advertisement

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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...
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Tall-tale Postcard: The Milky Way

Date: 1910
Description: A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn wagon carrying three enormous, full milk cans. The cans have spilled ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Water Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: A convertible automobile with its top down has crashed into the back of a horse-drawn water wagon. One passenger has flown through the air and pierced the ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Joy Ride

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of a man and a woman pushing their automobile through the mud because the wheels are caught in large ruts. Their feet have sunk to th...
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J.F. Riemer Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of J.F. Riemer, a poultry breeder of "S.C. Rhode Island Reds, S.C. Buff and Brown Leghorns, Barred and White Rocks, and S.C. Black Minorcas," fr...
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Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Althouse & Raymond Wind Mill and the Waupun Patent Premium Pump. I...
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Commercial National Bank Letterhead

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Description: Numbered letterhead of the Commercial National Bank of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with a lion's head, names of bank officers, and the legend, "Capital and Sur...
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McDonald & Stewart Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of McDonald & Stewart of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Lumber" and other products, with printer's fl...
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Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturer of vaneless wind mills, pumps, grinding mills, and water tanks, with illus...
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Royal Queen Japan Tea

Date: 05 28 1909
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features an illustration of a Japanese woman wearing traditional clothing. In the bac...
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Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
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Vote For Republican Candidates

Date: 11 05 1918
Description: Election poster featuring Republican candidates. Quarter-length portraits accompany each name. Names, left to right and top to bottom, "For Governor, Emanu...

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