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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster for "The War of Wealth." In the picture, a crowd of adults is surrounding a child, one man reaching to grab the girl's hand. At the... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top caption "Hoyt's 'A Black Sheep'/Hoyt & McKee, Proprietors." Image shows women trying to keep Buffalo Bill-type cowboy from tak... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. An Afgan prisoner with chains on his wrists fires a cannon past a man and a woman prisoner in it while a mob gathers outside the p... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top caption reads "Social Session" with an insert to the right containing an image of "D. J. Sprague, Manager." The image shows me... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. At top, the main banner reads "Blue Jeans" with insert at left "Will Never Wear Out" and another at right "By Joseph Arthur/The Au... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. At top “Hoyt’s "A Trip to Chinatown" with insert at center "From Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre New York" and another insert at rig... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. A man stands at a train station, his luggage flying out from the baggage room. The caption reads "The Junction-the Train Four Hour... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The banner at top reads "Hoyt's A Midnight Bell," below which is the tag "Laughter Every Minute." The image shows an white-haired ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a... |
| Date: | 05 1854 |
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| Description: | This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high... |
| Date: | 04 01 1867 |
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| Description: | Castle Garden Emigrant Agency poster advertising railroad travel rates for emigrants. |
| Date: | 04 1848 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an auction for about 49,000 acres of land for sale in Wisconsin and Illinois by Thomas & Sons Auctioneers. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising homesteads and village lots for sale. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A flyer distributed by the U.S. Christian Commission announcing a Union Meeting "in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers...". Several edits have been ma... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-lettered and drawn Civil War commemorative roster of Company F, Oconto County Regiment, known as the River Sackers. The background is decorated with s... |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | Drawn diagram of a head in profile with sections mapped for phrenological associations. Each numbered section is illustrated with an image representing the... |
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