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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als...
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Deering Farm Machinery Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering tractors and farm implements featuring an oval color illustration of a European farmhouse with thatched roof, farm laborer...
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Machines Agricoles & Ficelle Deering

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering farm machinery featuring color illustration of a street in a French town with people looking on as a man puts up a "Deerin...
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International 10-20 and 15-30 Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Advertising poster for International 10-20 and 15-30 h.p. tractors. Includes color illustrations of tractors in use on the farm. Printed by the Herman Lith...
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The McCormick at Work in Asiatic Russia

Date: 1887
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring color illustration of grain binders drawn by camels in a field. The caption reads...
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Dow Riot Protest Poster

Date: 10 1967
Description: Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t...
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Judy Greenspan for School Board

Date: 1973
Description: Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai...
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The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
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Central Pacific Railway California Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa...
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Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
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Poster for "The Man, the Maid and the Money"

Date: 1911
Description: Color lithograph poster. Title runs across top and the poster features a portrait of Dan Russell, whose name runs across the bottom. The famous comedian...
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Co-op Poster

Date: 
Description: A poster featuring a man in a tri-corner hat directing a group of people as they raise the frame of a barn. The text reads, "NEIGHBORS built America" and "...
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Rural Highways Poster

Date: 
Description: A poster promoting the importance of good roads. Image includes a horse-drawn wagon in the driving rain.
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Athletes For The President

Date: 1972
Description: A President Nixon re-election poster with approximately 360 signatures of athletes (appearing in alphabetical order) on it. At the top of the poster is the...
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"20 Hodin" (20 Hours) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster featuring a black and white photographic image of an arm (and its shadow) reaching out towards a rifle.
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"Das Dorf am Fluss" (Village by the River) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: German film poster for the Dutch film, "Dorp aan de rivier." Silhouetted image in white of a man riding a horse, with a village in the background with a bl...
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"Professor Hannibal" Film Poster

Date: 1960
Description: German film poster for the Hungarian film, "Hannibál tanár úr." Illustrated image in the foreground of two persons from the waist down, seemingly running, ...
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"Das Privatleben Heinrich VIII" (The Private Lives of Henry the Eighth) Film Poster

Date: 1962
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Illustrated image, in two rounded sections, of Henry the Eighth dressed in red and carrying a sw...
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"Unter Menschen" (On My Own) Film Poster

Date: 1956
Description: German film poster for re-release of the Russian film, "V lyudyakh." Illustrated image from the back of a man wearing a hat and coat. He is sitting with hi...
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"Gorkis Kindheit" (The Childhood of Maxim Gorky) Film Poster

Date: 1956
Description: German film poster for the Russian film, "Detstvo Gorkogo." Illustrated image from the back of a man wearing a hat and coat. He is sitting with his feet up...

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