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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French-Czechoslovakian film, "L'homme qui ment." Four narrow panels featuring different photogr... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Large, illustrated image of a man's head floating at the top with other smaller figures surrounding him. A band is playing on the le... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Flyer promoting a party at the Great Hall in UW-Madison's Memorial Union. The party was a fund-raiser for organizations opposing anti-gay discrimination in... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Le... |
| Date: | 03 1972 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster supporting Shirley Chisholm, an African American woman who was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Two-color silk screened political poster for Lee Sherman Dreyfus. His trademark red vest appears on the right, inside an outline of the shape of the state ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Propaganda poster encouraging American involvement in World War I by depicting the Prussian army as enslaving Europe. Includes a map of Europe with the lan... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting an image of a personified Big Bertha bomb. The bomb is wearing a German helmet and appears to have paws with large claws. It is being lit ... |
| Date: | 06 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the role of science in society. Features a butterfly, and a hand holding a flower, with text filling the interior of the design. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster with a head and shoulders illustration of Cardinal Mercier wearing a red robe. Text reads: "Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French-Italian Film, "Che gioia vivere." Nine illustrated, square panels filled with different scenes. One shows two men fightin... |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Poster identifying individuals as "executioners of the working class." The poster then says "We demand wage increases, no more demagogy or repression." The... |
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| Description: | Poster title at top reads: "We are Americans" and text below reads: "We Vote." Text at bottom reads: "CIO National Political Action Committee." The blue ba... |
| Date: | 01 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Features a cartooned Laird cornered in a boxing ring with... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Atlantic City as "the playground of the world," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depicts the buildings ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a map of the near East, with countries demarcated. The poster title is red text reading: "Where the Victims Are." The rest of the text rea... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign warning factory workers against taking chances. The poster is illustrated with the image of funeral procession consisting ... |
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