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Titan Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1919
Description: Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough...
Poster

Battle of Gettysburg Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Color lithographed color advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by ...
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Poster

McCormick "Battle of Shiloh" Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a McCormick binder stored in a shed in the middle of the ...
Print

Camp of the 4th Wisconsin

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Description: "Camp of Colonel Paine's 4th Wisconsin Regiment at the Relay House near Baltimore". Colored lithograph.
Poster

Battle of Gettysburg Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing a McCormick grain binder at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg. The poster was based on a cyclorama by French artis...
Book or Pamphlet

Slave Catchers

Date: 1849
Description: Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves.
Magazine or Periodical

The First Louisiana Native Guards

Date: 02 28 1863
Description: The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

Let 'Em Have It! - Let's All Back the Attack!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: Pittsburgh in the Beginning

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Railroad through artist N.C. Wyeth's depiction of the establishment of Fort...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Print

Gettysburg

Date: 
Description: Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America.
Postcard

"While above them floats 'Old Glory', Boon to all the world oppressed."

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Description: Postcard commemorating those who fought in the Civil War. "While above them floats 'Old Glory', Boon to all the world oppressed."
Print

That Feed Won't Do

Date: 1860
Description: Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i...
Print

Valentine Greetings

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Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher Historic Marker

Date: 08 24 1958
Description: The dedication of Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, U.S. Navy historical marker in Hillsboro, the birthplace of Admiral Mitscher. Participants in the dedication an...
Poster

Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys DPP?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lunging soldier pointing a gun in thr foreground. Behind the soldier is a boy in overalls with his hand on the soldie...
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...

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