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Spring Fantasie

Date: 1918
Description: Handmade poster featuring a drawing of a person wearing a large flower on top of their head, and a dress made of grass. The person is blowing through the s...
Poster

Invest at Least 10% in War Bonds

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 21, "Lincoln." The poster features a painting of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. with the following phrase spanning the top bo...
Poster

Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a line of people waiting to buy war savings stamps. The clothing and jewelry of the people suggests they are of varied ...
Poster

Still the Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ...
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Remember The Boys In France! — Write Them Often

Date: 1918
Description: This poster features an image of a large crowd of people watching a few men speaking on Wall Street. One man, Charles Brickley, is kicking a pigskin over t...
Photograph

Rennebohm's Employees Boost War Bonds

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:...
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Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority Annual Valentine Dance

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Mrs. Roger Clark (left) presenting a check for $200 to Mrs. Elaine Ellibee, Wisconsin Central Colony staff person, from the profits of the annual Epsilon S...
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Remember! The Flag of Liberty, Support It!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ...
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Buy Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a brass colored relief of the profile of Abraham Lincoln, as it appears on a penny. Poster text reads: "Buy Liberty Bon...
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Tsingtau Orchestra

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
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Charity Bazaar for the Benefit of War Sufferers

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a house burning in the background and a silhouette of a person with two children at their side in the foreground. Text ...
Poster

Polish Victims' Relief Fund

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of people outside of a bombed out town, looking up at a glowing image of Marian, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. Clouds frame th...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Foundation Centennial Campaign Dinner

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K...
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Masked Ball

Date: 02 01 1989
Description: Two people in costume posing on the dance floor. A few other dancers and band members are in the background. Caption reads: "Masked Ball — At the second an...
Photograph

Dogpatchers In Costume

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ...
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People Counting Pennies

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: People counting pennies that came in the mail for the Dr. Kate Million Penny fundraiser. Country doctor Kate Pelham Newcomb -- known as "the angel on snow...
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Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
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Anti-Anita Bryant Bash Poster

Date: 1977
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...
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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Amputees

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Description: A carte-de-visite of John Schmit, Freddy Hill, Leland Fay and George Schmit, who were frozen on the night of March 10th and 11th, 1876, on the Green Bay an...

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