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Cheese Poster
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Cheese advertising poster - Woman holding cheese platter and the words "Say Merry Christmas with Aged Select Natural Wisconsin Cheese in gift packs $1.00 postpaid," taken for Archie Hurst's, mail order business.
September 5, 1940
Waste, Elwin G., 1902-1957
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