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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Union Label Trades Department poster with samples of shop cards and union buttons from various trades. Created by Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work... |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A U.S. government poster encouraging citizens to invest their money in banks and especially to buy U.S. Reconstruction bonds. |
| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | The letterhead stationery of a Racine economic development committee reads: "Air City, Where the Air-Minded Live," The design shows airplanes and even a... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | An advertising brochure for the Invincible Cabin Monoplane, an airplane briefly manufactured by the Invincible Metal Furniture Company of Manitowoc. Text o... |
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| Description: | Logo of the Hamilton Standard Propeller Company. Thomas Hamilton of Milwaukee began manufacturing propellers during the 1920s. In 1929 Boeing purchased Ham... |
| Date: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | A truck with sign advertising the movie, "Africa Speaks" is parked in front of the Kaybee Store, next to the Capitol Theatre, 209 State Street where the mo... |
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| Description: | People gather near a circus poster display advertising side show attractions. |
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| Description: | Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent. |
| Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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| Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of Central House, with advertisements on the side of the building for Red Crown Gasoline. The Order of the Gideons was founded he... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color stamp used to advertise the Wisconsin State Fair. The illustration shows a crowd arriving at the fairgrounds, while a young girl in an ethnic costume... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair. For the centennial of Wisconsin statehood Wisconsin spent over 5 Million dollars on fourteen new ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
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