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Safety With Explosives

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Description: A Wisconsin Department of Agriculture truck with a sign that reads "Safety With Explosives." The truck and workers were part of a crew that blew tree stump...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Cart Advertising Movie

Date: 09 24 1932
Description: Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats."
Photograph

N.L. Dahl

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Description: Photograph of N.L. Dahl in front of a horse-drawn hearse. Photograph is mounted on an advertising card reading: "For Coffins, Caskets, and Trimmings at rea...
Poster

International Power Advertising Poster

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for International industrial equipment, including crawler tractors (TracTracTors), industrial tractors and shop mules. Includes photo il...
Print

Bijou Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Souvenir Booklet made for the opening night of August 19, 1889. Half of the image is the opera house, and the other half is a brief summary and descriptio...
Photograph

Commercial Area near Lake Michigan

Date: 1868
Description: Elevated view over rooftops looking towards Lake Michigan shoreline. Seaman's Furniture and Rooms building is surrounded by other commercial buildings. The...
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Dining Tent

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Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 02 1960
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a medium-duty stake truck and a Metro-Mite. Includes the text: "No matter what...
Photograph

The Result of Thrift and Energy

Date: 1895
Description: A promotional cards created to attract farmers to the agricultural land in northern Wisconsin. The image depicts Conrad Flicker and his family standing in ...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson, Talcott & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of the catalog cover. Illustration on front shows a group of children looking and laughing at dog that has been costumed in a hat, cape and ...
Photograph

Draft Horses at the Freeman Hotel Barn

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a two European American men, both displaying single draft horses, with the horse on the right hitched to a wagon. They are posing in fr...
Postcard

John Hahn Piano and Furniture Moving

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Description: John Hahn stands in the street near his horse-drawn cart. The side of the cart says 'John Hahn Piano & Furniture Moving'. The cart, John Hahn, and the cart...
Postcard

Dr. W.H. Perrigo Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist

Date: 1907
Description: A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee....
Photograph

McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view across street of McCormick Works. In the foreground are sidewalks on either side of the street. Advertisements are painted on the sides of co...

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