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Champion Harvester and Binder

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising handbill for the Champion harvester and binder. Includes the text: "the Champion light binder, is the only simple, light, durable, efficient wo...
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J.M. Alcott & Company Drugstore

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior of the drugstore of Joseph Mabbett Alcott at 90 Wisconsin Street. Pictured are Charles Alcott (left), his son, and store helpers.
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Horse-Drawn Trolley

Date: 1890
Description: Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising...
Photograph

J.N. Hegeman Drugstore at 60 Fulton Avenue

Date: 1885
Description: Exterior view of the J.N. Hegeman Drugstore at 60 Fulton Avenue. Left to right: a clerk, J.W. Ferris, an errand boy, William O'Bry, and a porter.
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Flour and Feed Store

Date: 1899
Description: The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701...
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Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ...
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I.C.U. Market and Cold Storage Building

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior of building. A large advertising sign is on the right side, behind a large smokestack. A smaller sign stating "For Rent O.J. Schenck" has been h...
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La Belle House

Date: 1867
Description: A summer resort, situated on the banks of Fowler and La Belle Lakes, in the village of Oconomowoc, thirty miles from Milwaukee on the St. Paul R.R. Men sta...
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Three Men in front of Blacksmith Shop

Date: 1895
Description: Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ...
Poster

Harrison Souvenir

Date: 1888
Description: Souvenir placard issued by the Kreuz & Curtis shoe store of Madison, Wisconsin, probably to commemorate the presidential election victory of Benjamin Harri...
Postcard

Singer Advertising Card - Spain "Sevilla"

Date: 1892
Description: Chromolithograph card of a couple from Sevilla, Spain in "native" costume, posing near a Singer sewing machine. The man is holding a small glass of wine an...
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Railroad Mail Delivery

Date: 1876
Description: Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children...
Poster

Under the Gaslight Poster

Date: 1867
Description: Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w...
Photograph

Broadway Street

Date: 1895
Description: A man walks across the unpaved street in the Broadway Street business district, with automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles along the curb. There is a hill i...
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Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Advertisement for the selling of tents for the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment, of Grand Army of the Republic, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 23,...
Book or Pamphlet

Ann Arbor Agricultural Co. Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back sides of the Ann Arbor Co. brochure. The front cover includes an illustration of the factory. The inside is a spread with an illustration of...
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Buckeye Binder Advertising Card

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising card featuring a chromolithograph of men driving horses pulling Buckeye Binders in a race. The card reads at the top: "Buckeye leads the field....
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"Imperial" Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1881
Description: Front of card for the Bucher & Gibbs Plow Co., Canton, Ohio. Features a color illustration of a man wearing a spike helmet and military uniform decorated w...
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Wise's Axle Grease is the Best

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card featuring an illustration of a man doffing his hat to a woman who is standing on a path holding an umbrella. Above their heads is a large ...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...

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