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Poster for "The Cow-Boy Girl"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster advertising the musical "The Cow-boy Girl" depicting Pa trying to talk to Ma through her ear horn. Kilroy and Britton were the prod...
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D. W. Griffith "Intolerance" Poster

Date: 02 1971
Description: Poster advertising a screening of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Union Theater, February 18, 19...
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Ike & Tina Turner Show Poster

Date: 06 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a concert by Ike and Tina Turner at the Dane County Coliseum, in Madison, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1971. Features a picture of Tina Tur...
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Fleetwood Mac at Dewey's

Date: 02 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising a performance by Fleetwood Mac at Dewey's. Features an outdoor photograph of the band.
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B.B. King Performance

Date: 03 29 1971
Description: Poster advertising a performance by B.B. King at Dewey's. Features a photograph of B.B. King with a guitar, presumably at a performance. The poster was des...
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Poster for "Rip Van Winkle"

Date: 1905
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ...
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Poster for "Don't Lie to Your Wife"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'...
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Poster for "The Bachelor's Baby"

Date: 1909
Description: Color lithograph. Across the top the caption reads "The Colonial Theatre Company Presents" and below that in much larger letters is "Etienne Girardot" foll...
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Poster for "Mr. Blarney from Ireland"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top is the caption "Chas. E. Blaney presents," flanked by smaller banners left and right. The left banner read...
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Poster for "Happy Henry"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. In one large banner set in a black field at top reads "A musical comedy farce Happy Henry *12* Big Song Hits *12*." The i...
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Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels"

Date: 1915
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top it reads: "Oscar F. Hodge presents," underneath, in larger blue letters is: "Neil O'Brien." Below this: "a...
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Poster for "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"

Date: 1910
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top reads "Klaw and Erlanger's production" followed by the title in larger letters. Below the title and on the...
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Poster for "Singer's Midgets"

Date: 1916
Description: Color lithograph poster featuring two scenes of the famous Austro-Hungarian troupe at the top and bottom. At the top, one performer on a violin accompanies...
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Poster for "The Woman: An American Play"

Date: 1911
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top a caption reads "David Belasco's great success" followed by "The Woman" in large red letters. Below and to the right is "An...
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Poster for "Sheriff of Angel Gulch"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster. Caption across top reads: "Chas. E. Blaney presents Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West in his new play Sheriff of Angel Gulch." ...
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New Bauhaus

Date: 1987
Description: Poster representing cover of 50 Jahre Bauhausnachfolge in Chicago New Bauhaus, by Peter, Lloyd C. Engelbrecht, et al Hahn. Photograph by William Keck made ...
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Joseph Papp presents Festival Latino in New York

Date: 08 1986
Description: Poster promoting the 1986 New York Festival Latino, which was founded in 1976, produced by Joseph Papp, a Broadway producer, and directed by Oscar Ciccone ...
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Tell Fidel I Will Do My Duty

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...
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Salvador Allende Kept His Word Dramatically and Impressively

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...
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These Are My Last Words...

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...

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