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City of Madison Bond

Date: 1857
Description: One thousand dollar bond and unclipped coupons issued by the city of Madison in 1857. The bond was illustrated with a railroad train, perhaps to suggest th...
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Wisconsin Bank Notes

Date: 1852
Description: Proof sheets of five and ten dollars bills of the Wisconsin Bank of Madison. Among other illustrations, the notes include an engraving of Leonard J. Farwel...
Poster

Employee "Education" Sign or Poster

Date: 1921
Description: International Harvester sign reading: "Make Your Dollar Buy a Dollar's Worth Before Buying." The sign was intended to encourage thrift among company employ...
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Profit Sharing Plan Advertisement

Date: 1921
Description: Sign informing International Harvester employees about the company's "Profit Sharing Plan." The sign reads: "Profit Sharing Plan; Are You Saving and Sharin...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Rat Subterranean News

Date: 06 15 1968
Description: Cover of "Rat Subterranean News," an underground newspaper, featuring Hubert Humphrey dressed as a police officer wearing a gas mask and a tie around his n...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Ann Arbor Argus

Date: 08 13 1969
Description: Cover for "The Ann Arbor Argus," an underground newspaper, featuring an image of a red-clad super hero fighting a muscular bald man, with a diamond around ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The East Village Other

Date: 03 24 1970
Description: Cover of "The East Village Other," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon bomb on top of a pile of money. The headline reads, "Booming the Economy."...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Strategic Hamlet

Date: 11 11 1970
Description: Cover of "Strategic Hamlet: An Isla Vista Street Journal," an underground newspaper, featuring a woman as Justice balancing the Bank of America and a group...
Poster

McKinley Campaign Poster

Date: 1896
Description: Organizational poster for a young men's Republican Club in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to support the 1896 Presidential campaign of William McKinley. The Presiden...
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Land Rental Receipt

Date: 10 17 1910
Description: Receipt for the sum of $8 paid by Louis M. Hobbins to Peter Bratvold for the right to hunt on 40 acres of land in Door Creek from Oct 26, 1910 through Octo...
Poster

Badger Herald Advertisement

Date: 01 04 1971
Description: Poster advertising the price of an individual issue of The Badger Herald student newspaper on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Check for J. Alder Ellis

Date: 12 30 1856
Description: A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall.
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Check for Fredericka Lindenthald

Date: 12 19 1853
Description: A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall.
Poster

Plan Now for the Bigger 7th War Loan - Through Pay-Roll Savings

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features a crowd of civilians lined up in a V-formation and waving cash in the air.
Poster

$30 Reward

Date: 02 01 1864
Description: List of Civil War draft-dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal's office, Fifth District of Wisconsin.
Poster

Statistics of the Civil War

Date: 1892
Description: A large poster giving an overview of the cost of the Civil War in lives and money, dominated by a list of 154 major battles.
Poster

Confederate States of America Currency

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Description: Poster of Confederate currency, one $1000 bill, and sixty $30 bills.
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Russian 500 Ruble Treasury Bill

Date: 1912
Description: Reverse side of a Russian 500 ruble bank note issued in 1912.

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