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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Ephemera collection, circa 1850-circa 2000
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| Description: | Memohead of the Great Northern Nursery Company, with a street view of the company office building and apple cellar. Residential buildings, trucks, automobi... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Waterloo Fire Department, with a duotone photograph of a baseball field with a game in progress and fans in the stands at Firemen's Park,... |
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| Description: | Memohead of Garver's Supply Company, supplier of feeds, flour, and building supplies, with a three-quarter view of the company building on Atwood Avenue. |
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| Description: | Notehead of the Wisconsin Hotel Company, with three-quarter views of three hotels it operated: The Foeste in Sheboygan, The Oneida in Rhinelander, and The ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Felker Brothers Manufacturing Company. At the top is a color illustration of a landscape with a red barn, a farmhouse, silos, and a culve... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Capital Battery and Supply Company, with two men in winged hats, one holding an automobile, the other a box radio, and the slogan, "Serving t... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Watertown Chamber of Commerce, with spot illustrations around the page of a dairy cow, potatoes, an ear of corn, a "mortgage lifter" hog,... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company, with an elevated three-quarter view of the company building. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Morley-Murphy Hardware Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building and horse, streetcar, and rail traffic around it. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Sims Malt-O-Wheat Company, with a stone-framed sign for Sims Breakfast Food, a package of malt-o-wheat ("Malt and Wheat"), and the logo i... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Red Cross Hygienic Company, distributor of disinfectants and insecticides, with the company's circular logo with a red cross in the cente... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Collingbourne Mills Western Thread Company, with a bird's eye view of the company complex, flanked by examples along the left-hand side of th... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Prophylactic Brush Company, with examples of a hair brush, a tooth brush, and a hand brush, in or alongside the boxed packaging. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the John C. Becker Company, manufacturers of office and bank furniture and office equipment outfitters, with an overlay with the company name... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Pennsylvania Coal & Supply Company, with the company trademark: the initials "P" and "C" printed in red ink, and a head and shoulders ima... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Troy Laundry Machinery Company, with a classical figure of a man wearing a work apron and caligae, holding in his right hand a hammer, an... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of W.A. Maurer, importer and jobber of china painting supplies, including "white china for decorating, artists materials, colors, etc." On the l... |
| Date: | 05 14 1886 |
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| Description: | Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | One-page tea room menu from the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. At the top is an illustration of a gondolier steering a couple in a c... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Front cover and interior of menu for the Century Grills at the 1937 World's Fair. On the cover is a black and white photograph of a fair building, and silv... |
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