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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the 1879 Wisconsin State Fair held at Camp Randall in Madison. The poster features a drawing of a hot air balloon and boasts of special ... |
| Date: | 09 01 1884 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Souvenir placard issued by the Kreuz & Curtis shoe store of Madison, Wisconsin, probably to commemorate the presidential election victory of Benjamin Harri... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising a public auction at the estate of Olaus Haagenson. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 01 1867 |
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| Description: | Castle Garden Emigrant Agency poster advertising railroad travel rates for emigrants. |
| Date: | 04 1848 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an auction for about 49,000 acres of land for sale in Wisconsin and Illinois by Thomas & Sons Auctioneers. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising homesteads and village lots for sale. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A flyer distributed by the U.S. Christian Commission announcing a Union Meeting "in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers...". Several edits have been ma... |
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