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Buy Bonds!

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Description: Display that advertises the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan or the Bond-a-Month-Plan. Wisconsin State Governor Walter J. Kohler...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln and Union Commanders

Date: 1884
Description: This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil...
Print

Seipp's Beer Advertising Card

Date: 1884
Description: A card advertising Conrad Seipp's Brewery of Chicago. Features a caricature of United States political figures of 1884, including, seated at the table from...
Poster

"It's Too Bad That the Taxpayer . . ."

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Description: Cartoon of an overweight man wearing a suit and tie. Text reads: "It's too bad that the taxpayer can't vote for a job and raise his own salary! As his poli...
Poster

Piggy Politician

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Description: Black on white cartoon head of a pig wearing hat, spectacles, moustache, and coat and tie. Written on the side in large red an dblack letters the text read...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: A presidential political campaign advertisement with head and shoulders portraits of George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle and a title that reads: "Finding the r...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Emphemera

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Description: A paper advertisement with mail-in postcard for a subscription to the "New York Times" newspaper. The poster is blue, black, and white and has a portrait o...

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