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| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Plate V from Turnversin manual "Fahnen-Uebungen" (Flag exercises). "Different lifts both to and from standing position, including changing footsteps." Fr... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!". |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the 1879 Wisconsin State Fair held at Camp Randall in Madison. The poster features a drawing of a hot air balloon and boasts of special ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a socialistic labor party mass meeting in New York. |
| Date: | 04 1841 |
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| Description: | A notice published In Memory of President Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President of the United States, upon his death, April 4, 1841, at the age of 68. The tribut... |
| Date: | 10 31 1861 |
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| Description: | Commemorative roster of Company G of the 12th regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 09 01 1884 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company. |
| Date: | 11 28 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War recruiting poster for the 5th Wisconsin Regiment written in German. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Souvenir placard issued by the Kreuz & Curtis shoe store of Madison, Wisconsin, probably to commemorate the presidential election victory of Benjamin Harri... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Organizational poster for a young men's Republican Club in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to support the 1896 Presidential campaign of William McKinley. The Presiden... |
| 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: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A poster from the McKinley-Hobart campaign with the message "The Real Issue," showing William J. Bryant opening the U.S. Mint to the silver of the world, w... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Poster designed to recruit soldiers to the 19th Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. In addition to the text, the poster features an eagle carrying a b... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising a public auction at the estate of Olaus Haagenson. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Poster addressed to "sophomore cowards" declaring "give us canes or give us death!" and signed by the Executive Committee of '97. |
| 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: | 02 01 1864 |
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| Description: | List of Civil War draft-dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal's office, Fifth District of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A large poster giving an overview of the cost of the Civil War in lives and money, dominated by a list of 154 major battles. |
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