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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Dodge improved combined self raking reaper and mower featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer on the machine pull... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the sternwheel excursion, G.W. Hill, with an engraving of the sternwheel docked at the riverside, and a description of its feature... |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a couple in a 1971 International Scout pickup crossing a small creek, as another couple is following behind on horseback. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Waupun on the Rock River. There is an inset at top center of "Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Windmills and Pumps." |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for Cotton King disk harrows. Includes an illustration of a steamboat on the water, and cotton plants. |
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| Description: | Men standing on top of a freight train crossing the river, and a log dam before the flood. Painted rocks in the river advertise for A.F. Werner. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Bridge in the downtown area crossing the Milwaukee River. City buildings reach into the background, with the farthest fading out. Many people are crossin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Part of a bridge is visible in the lower left corner. Under the bridge is a floating pier with advertisements painted on its sides. Another br... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across water of a motorboat with four men going upstream. There is a bicycle in the motorboat. The shoreline in the background has industrial building... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of downtown Milwaukee riverbank before the First National Bank was built in 1914. Advertising painted on the sides of buildings includes B. Mock & So... |
| Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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| Description: | A rowboat full of passengers floats alongside a ferry, which travels between Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and Rising Sun, Indiana. On the side of the ferry are s... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A wall atlas of Sauk County, Wisconsin, displaying its 22 towns. On the left side are advertisements for local businesses. |
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