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Wabash-Serving St. Louis Industries
Title
Wabash-Serving St. Louis Industries
Date
1956-08, 1856-08
Description
Reverse side of map from the Wabash Railroad Company
Danger Ahead! Handbill
Title
Danger Ahead! Handbill
Description
White handbill that has a cartoon wooden sign reading "Danger Ahead" in red. The sign is surrounded by red cartoon lanterns. Below are warnings about then presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower and his military background. At the bottom "Vote for Stevenson for President" is printed in red. This poster was created by "The National Volunteers for Stevenson".
Newsweek Democratic Convention Scorecard
Title
Newsweek Democratic Convention Scorecard
Date
1956
Description
10 7/8 inches by 13 1/2 inches cardboard card with rounded corners. At the top of the sign is red lettering that reads, "Newsweek". Below is a red bracket with black lettering inside that reads, "know the POLITICAL SCORE read NEWSWEEK". On the back of the sign is black lettering that reads, "Newsweek's DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SCORE CARD". The majority of the back is taken up by a large graph, with
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia November 12-13-14, 1951
Title
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia November 12-13-14, 1951
Date
1951
Description
Publication of a meeting held in 1951 by the Freight Traffic Department of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. It includes a map of the Chesapeake District, a map of the Pere Marquette District, miles of road operated, expenditures made for improvements & new equipment, revenue tons of freight originated and received and connections, loaded cars interchanged, freight car and locomotive
Do You Want to Go Back 10 years? Flyer
Title
Do You Want to Go Back 10 years? Flyer
Date
1956
Description
The flyer is made of yellow paper with blue ink. On the front is a mock box score printed with references to "average factory wage", "Total Jobs", "Unemployment", "Union Members" and "Strikes" displayed in relation to 1946 "before "Tart-Hartley" and in 1956 "After Tart-Hartley". Below the box score "The Democrats Call These Shackles!" is printed and below is a list containing more information
7 Reasons Print Ad
Title
7 Reasons Print Ad
Date
1952
Description
Print ad for Automatic Voting Machine Corporation of Jamestown, New York, in operation "since 1898". Headline reads "7 Reasons Why More Than 5,500 Cities, Towns and Villages in the United States Use AUTOMATC [sic] VOTING MACHINES". A black and white image of a man using the automatic voting machine in a voting booth is to the right of a bulleted list of reasons, below the headline.
Report on Railroad Trailer-On-Flat-Car Operations
Title
Report on Railroad Trailer-On-Flat-Car Operations
Date
1955-05-10, 1955-05-10
Description
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Report on TOFC Operations.
Frisco
Title
Frisco
Date
1957-10, 1957-10
Description
from timetable rack in curator's office.
The New Yorker Magazine
Title
The New Yorker Magazine
Date
1959-11-03
Description
The New Yorker magazine from "Nov, 3, 1956". The cover is a cartoon depiction of a green voting machine surrounded by people reading off and tallying the results. "Price 20 cents" is printed in the upper right corner. Getz is signed in the lower left corner.
Eisenhower Cartoon Book
Title
Eisenhower Cartoon Book
Date
1956
Description
8 7/8 inches by 7 inches cartoon book about Dwight D. Eisenhower. The cover is red and blue with white letters spelling "PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S CARTOON BOOK 95 specially drawn cartoons by 95 of America's most distinguished cartoonists with a foreword by GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, Secretary of the Treasury". There is also a cartoon of Eisenhower's head on the cover to the left of the writing and seven gold stars line the bottom of the cover. The book is made up of cartoons that were presented to Eisenhower when he became an honorary member of the National Cartoonist Society. The book was made to help save government savings bonds. The pages usually feature one piece of art and a short biography of the artist while some have three on one page.
Speed with profit and comfort: the Curtiss-Wright train
Title
Speed with profit and comfort: the Curtiss-Wright train
Date
1958, 1958
Ceremony of the Unknown Soldier
Title
Ceremony of the Unknown Soldier
Date
unknown
Description
"From the four American cemeteries the bodies of four unidentified men were brought to Chalons sur Marne and from among those four one was chosen with the simplest of ceremonies as the "Unknown soldier" who is to rest for ever in Arlington National Cemetery. The choice from among the four bodies was made by Sergt. Edward Younger who walked slowly round the coffins and indicated his choice by placing his fingers on one of them. Photo shows the selected coffin laying in state guarded by six American and six French soldiers in the Chapel Ardent of the Chalons Town Hall."

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