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This Perfume Is Confusing
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This Perfume Is Confusing
Liederkranz 1878
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Masquerade Ball Ticket • Heppenheimer & Maurer Litho • NYC • 7″ x 4″ • 1878
J.K. Muller Comedian
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Cabinet Photograph • Young photo • Grand Rapids, Michigan • 5″ x 7″ • c.1885
Circus Clowns
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Advertising Label • Batger Cracker Co. • London • 8″ x 11″ • c.1925
B&B Circus Football
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Circus Poster • Strobridge Litho • Cincinnati • for Barnum & Bailey • 31″ 19″ • 1918
Victorian Baseball Baby
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Victorian Baseball Baby
Sporting Life Catcher
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Sporting Life Catcher
Reach Guide Poster 1894
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Reach Guide Poster 1894
National Chew Trade Card
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Advertising Trade Card • Calvert Litho • Detroit • 3″ x 5″ • 1881
Home Run Cigarettes
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Tobacco Poster • 14″ x 21″ • c.1890
Golden Ball Baseball Label
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Cigar Box Label • Heppenheimer & Maurer • NYC • 4″ x 4″ • c.1878
Soldiers Light Up
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Soldiers Light Up
Rainbow Label
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Rainbow Label
Windy At The Beach
Windy At The Beach
Printers Ink
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Advertising Trade Card • Forbes Litho • Boston • 3″ x 5″ • c.1880
Panel Truck
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Panel Truck
Mordecai Brown Sporting Goods
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Catalog Cover • Goldsmith Sporting Goods Co. • Cincinnati • 6″ x 8″ • c.1912
Good Cheer
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Cigar Box Label • Harris Litho • Philadelphia • 4″ x 4″ • c.1880
Doctor Haas Nine
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Advertising Trade Card • Bufford Litho • New York City • 4″ x 3′ • c.1880
Designing
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Advertising Trade Card • Crump Label Works • New York City • 4″ x 5″ • c.1860
Coolest of Dudes
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Advertising Trade Card • Stock Card • Currier & Ives Litho • New York City • 4″ x 3″ • 1860
Carters Inx
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Advertising Blotter • for Carter’s Ink Co. • Cambridge, Massachusetts • 6″ x 2.5″ • c.1920
Calcionamide Illustration
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Postcard • Africa • 3.5″ x 5″ • c.1910
Buick Headlight
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Catalog Illustration • for General Motors Corp. • Dearborn, Michigan • 11″ x 8″ • 1954
Atlas
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Advertising Trade Card • for W.A. Orr Shoe Co. • St. Louis, Missouri • 3″ x 6″ • c.1885
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About The Rucker Archive Portfolios
Billy Carroll the Clown
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Billy Carroll the clown was so obscure that he is not even listed on the Circus History biography page. Clowns in general do not get lots of historical notice, but…
Baseball Cartes Portfolio
The Masquerade Ball Portfolio
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