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| 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: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a tree branch. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
| Date: | 03 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on W. Wisconsin Avenue from approximately N. 4th Street, with the Wisconsin Hotel on the left and the Majestic building on the r... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | An ad printed by Rufus King & Co. displaying many typefaces and describing "Printer's Stock, consisting of Type, Presses, Cases, Borders, Cuts, Stationary ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Five O'clock Club Beer, A. Gettelman Brewing Company." The label features the silhou... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Roshak Zmuda at work in the advertising department of Allis-Chalmers. |
| Date: | 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Illustrative art showing a close-up of a man's dress shoe strapped onto a roller skate with leather bindings. A pants cuff and hint of an argyle sock are v... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards a large black bus in front of the U.W. Milwaukee Panther Arena. On the bus is an advertisement for Donald Trump's book ... |
| Date: | 10 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men are putting up a billboard sign. Two of the men are wearing suits and the third is wearing an overcoat. Caption reads: "A billboard promoting Mil... |
| Date: | 02 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Airbrush rendering of Brooks Stevens' vision for a redesign of the Oscar Mayer promotional wiener vehicle. The view is an elevated, three-quarter view from... |
| Date: | 02 15 1989 |
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| Description: | Three girls are sitting on a wicker chair, and wearing floral print dresses. The middle girl is holding a parasol over the three of them. Caption reads: "F... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Brochure advertising the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair featuring images of several fair attractions. |
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