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Oscar Mayer Meat Display

Date: 06 02 1931
Description: Display of Oscar Mayer meat products. The meat, along with fern leaves as decoration, is displayed on a large sheet of paper placed on a table against a wa...
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Christmas Pudding-Woolson Spice Co.

Date: 1890
Description: Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,...
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Cock Pit

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Description: View of a thatched roof cock pit located in a fenced-in area and surrounded by trees. Published by Variety Store.
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1908
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus and one of his reindeer encircled by a collar studded with holly, and jingle bells that have smiling faces on them. Santa i...
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a boy carrying a plum pudding topped with holly. He is dressed in a red, green and white medieval style costume. His hat is grey with a plu...
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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1929
Description: A combined holiday card and birth announcement with Santa Claus and a stork holding a banner between them that says "Holiday Greetings from the Knowltons i...
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Hello!

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card with an animal made out of Christmas elements. A bow, two bells, holly and candy canes. It is positioned on a sheet of music, and behind that ...
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Cheerio!

Date: 1943
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus winking. He is wearing his traditional red hat with white trim and a bell. The word "Cheerio!" is made out of candy canes and...
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Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with a frog, wearing a red and black checked suit and a bow tie, dancing on a pine branch. He has one candy cane in his mouth and one in his o...
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Cranberry Parade Float

Date: 1950
Description: Parade float sponsored by Eatmor and Ocean Spray Cranberries. A beauty contestant sits with a large cranberry pie on the float which is pulled by a John De...
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Reynolds Brothers, Inc. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Reynolds Brothers of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, growers and packers of fresh, frozen, and canned Door County cherries, with a leafy branch lade...
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Loyd Cheese Factory

Date: 1921
Description: Exterior of the two-story Loyd Cheese Factory. A barn on the left of the factory features an advertisement for Star Tobacco.
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The Pure Milk Company IH Truck

Date: 10 17 1928
Description: Side view of an International milk truck operated by "The Pure Milk Co. Limited." A man is sitting in the driver's seat holding the steering wheel. The bac...
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Egg Day Parade

Date: 10 15 1935
Description: Women ride on a parade float on the bed of an International C-line truck during Egg Day at the Western Washington Fair. Two men are riding inside the cab o...
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Truck Driving Down Texas Highway

Date: 1977
Description: View from side of road of an International Harvester model F-4370 truck traveling down a Texas highway. Behind the truck is an overpass with a sign reading...
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Creamery

Date: 1926
Description: View across yard of the co-operative Creamery Company. There are two large vents on the roof of the building that have weather vanes decorated with cows.
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Hotel Badger Dinner Menu

Date: 10 29 1908
Description: Front cover and menu listing from the Hotel Badger, with an etching of a fox sitting on the ground looking up at a bunch of grapes hanging on a vine over a...
Book or Pamphlet

Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents Lunch Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed illustration of a spider in her ...
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Sun Bath on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Two men enjoy a nude sun bath on Buster Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The man on the right, wearing only boots, is...
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Breakfast in Heidelberg for American Journalists Menu

Date: 05 05 1928
Description: Front and back sides of a menu (in German) for a breakfast given by the city of Heidelberg to honor American journalists, with a scene of the Heidelberg Ca...

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