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Reaper Contest!

Date: 05 30 1882
Description: Advertising handbill for the Osborne twine binder. Describes the results of a contest between the Osborne machine and machines made by McCormick, Deering, ...
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Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
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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...
Manuscript

Co-operative Fair

Date: 02 1886
Description: A formal announcement of a Co-operative Fair that was held in March of 1886.
Manuscript

Co-operative Collars and Cuffs

Date: 1887
Description: Advertisement for K. of L. Brand Co-operative Collars and Cuffs showing illustrations of collars. It includes the statement "The Only Union Made Collars".
Book or Pamphlet

Advertisements for Knights of Labor Products

Date: 11 29 1888
Description: Advertisements for co-operative companies including Co-operative Collar and Cuff Company, Solidarity Watch Case Company and a tailoring company. They appea...
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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Fountain Spring House

Date: 1880
Description: Advertisement for the Fountain Spring House.
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Kansas City Manufacturers Message to Implement Dealers

Date: 1885
Description: Broadsheet describing the opposition of numerous smaller agricultural machinery manufacturers to "...the monopoly which certain implement dealers, here in ...
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Wagon Industry Advertisement

Date: 1885
Description: Advertisement of the Hurlbut Manufacturing Company of Racine, the home of several wagon manufacturing firms during the 19th Century. Hurlbut began manufac...
Poster

Cranberry Pickers Wanted

Date: 09 01 1884
Description: Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company.
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Bijou Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Souvenir Booklet made for the opening night of August 19, 1889. Half of the image is the opera house, and the other half is a brief summary and descriptio...
Photograph

Milwaukee River from Bridge

Date: 1880
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...
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...
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Auction Sale on the Leo Melcher Farm

Date: 1889
Description: Broadside advertising an auction on the Leo Melcher farm. Items for sale included livestock, feed and crops, farm machinery, and household items including ...
Poster

Administrator's Public Auction

Date: 1882
Description: Broadside advertising a public auction at the estate of Olaus Haagenson.
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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,...
Photograph

Milwaukee River from Bridge - Anaglyph

Date: 1880
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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Electricity in a Bottle

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and n...
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Tried by Fire Advertising

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising pamphlet for Susan Frackelton's Tried by Fire. The ad features quotations from reviews and drawings of several medals won by...

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