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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting William McKinley, Jr. at Toledo, Ohio, February 12, before the Ohio League of Republican Clubs. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn poster, produced by S.W. Martin's Writing Academy of Madison, listing the officers and men of the 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Key to a composite portrait of the members of Congress who voted for to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the caption misidenti... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James A. Herne in his Great Play" upper left, title and director upper right. Scene from play with Martin and Nathaniel Berry c... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James J. Corbett in His New Play A Naval Cadet" across top, Charles T. Vincent's name beneath title upper left and "Direction o... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across top with author's name, William Gillette, under it in upper right corner. Scene depicts a well-dressed woman sta... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across the top with the author's name just below it upper right. Scene from the drama shows a boy dressed in gray unifo... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The caption running across the top is "Frank Sanger's Company supporting John F. Sheridan." The image shows Sheridan, cross-dresse... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The image depicts two men fighting near a bridge and raging river. One man has driven the other to the precipice. A caption below ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph of Ben Hur and the Egyptian woman Iras embracing. Across the top banner in caps is "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production," underneath... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. Across the top banner in caps is "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production," underneath is "Gen'l Lew Wallace's Ben Hur." This is follow... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. The top caption reads in caps: "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production." Beneath this is the title against a red filed, and o... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top in caps is the caption "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production," under which follows "Gen'l Lew Wallace... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster depicting a scene from the play "Darkest Russia" showing two bound captives at the feet of Imperial soldiers reacting to the arriva... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster showing a scene set at a musical recital in Imperial Russia. Top left inset with Imperial Russian crest and "by H. Grattan Donnelly... |
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