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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company. There is an engraving of a train and a list of the officers of the company. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Goodrich Transportation Company listing destinations and departure times. In the center of the advertisement is a drawing of a sidewhe... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound between catalog pages. (One o... |
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| Description: | The La Crosse Tractor Advertisement with schematic. A photograph at the top shows men with tractors and wagons advertising the "Kansas City Tractor Show." ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the business district. Signs read: "United Fruit and Cigar Store" and "Wrigley's P.K. chewing sweet." |
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| Description: | View down Main Street with overhead sign reading "Welcome Garden City" sign. Text on buildings reads: "E.J. Pyle Real Estate" and "F. Finnup. Hardware." Ci... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the Columbia Hotel. Two women stand in front of the hotel under the roofed entrance. The side of the hotel has a painted advertis... |
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| Description: | Shown is the car for Mangel Florist, offering "choicest flowers, best service, and moderate pricing." John Venizelos, taking the name 'Mangel' after immigr... |
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| Description: | A copy of a promotional postcard showing the Jacob E. Decker & Sons packing plant, factories, railroad, and grazing animals. All contribute to the producti... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men with horses and wagons gathered outside the Faville Grove Farmers' Co-Operative Cheese Factory. A poster advertising the State Fair is pasted to the wa... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A McVicar Photo Service sign on the spare tire cover on the back of a Ford coupe. The full text of the sign reads, "McVICAR PHOTO SERVICE, Specialists in C... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
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| Description: | Advertising card for O.L. Oleson of Ramona, Wisconsin who sold patent medicines. The card features a photograph of Oleson seated in a wagon advertising Wil... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the Kissel Custom Built Car published in the June, 1927 issue of the "Wisconsin Motorist" magazine, page 13. The company was the Kisse... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A two-sided map of the state of Wisconsin. The front includes towns and major cities as well as state and county trunk highways. The back includes a smalle... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This color map includes historical descriptions of select areas and a short article on the history of Wisconsin. The major highways in the state shown on t... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | View across road towards loading dock of the Kingsbury Brewing Company. Printed on the side of the building are two advertisements for Kingsbury Beer. |
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| Description: | Large Blatz Beer sign on top of Gorski's Tower Restaurant at the Wisconsin state line. The sign reads: "Blatz Beer Milwaukee State Line." |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Old Hollander beer, brewed by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. On the label the beer i... |
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