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Poster

SNCC poster

Date: 
Description: Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster featuring an African man and child on red background.
Print

Menominee War Dance

Date: 1842
Description: Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail...
Painting

Louis Ross or Louis Kossuth

Date: 1852
Description: Oil painting portrait of a man. He is wearing an overcoat and dark top hat with two feathers in the hatband.

There is some confusion about the last name;...

Painting

Portrait of a Woman

Date: 
Description: Oil painting portrait of unknown woman. Her hair is pinned up and she is wearing a short sleeved black dress. She has a crucifix hanging around her neck.
Photograph

Ladies Ideal Band

Date: 1888
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Ladies Ideal Band, in uniform and holding their instruments which include drums and various brass ins...
Poster

Adler Brau Ad

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Description: Promotional poster for Adler Brau showing a can and two bottles of beer on a platter beneath the slogan "Request the best... for Friend & Guest" and above ...
Print

Flags and Pledge of Allegiance

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Description: Images of American and British flags illustrate the Pledge of Allegiance, originally composed by Francis Bellamy, as well as a quote from Oliver Wendell Ho...
Photograph

Tug Record Pulling a Schooner into Superior

Date: 1891
Description: Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio...
Print

Scenes and Incidents at the Republican National Convention

Date: 06 03 1884
Description: Illustrations=s of the Republican National Convention. The main drawing shows an outside view with the caption "Scene in front of the convention building d...
Poster

For Governor ... Dreyfus

Date: 1978
Description: Two-color silk screened political poster for Lee Sherman Dreyfus. His trademark red vest appears on the right, inside an outline of the shape of the state ...
Poster

Gargantua the Great

Date: 1938
Description: Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a...
Photograph

Josephine (Crane) Bradley

Date: 1908
Description: Portrait of Josephine Crane of Chicago, Illinois in her wedding dress and veil. She married Harold Cornelius Bradley, a professor of physiological chemistr...
Photograph

The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
Print

Governor Dreyfus Print "I Eat Bee Poop"

Date: 03 08
Description: Artwork by Steve H--. Silkscreen. Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus quote illustrated "I Eat Bee Poop." "Wisconsin Grade A Fancy" in lower left corner.

Presen...

Photograph

Beekeepers and Hives

Date: 1919
Description: Hand-colored photographic print. Two beekeepers, one standing, one crouching near hives in an apiary. "Herman Roebel's Apiary 1919" written on back of prin...
Photograph

S.M. Babcock

Date: 1888
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of group of nine men, identified on the reverse as associates of the Geneva, New York Experiment Station. St...
Photograph

Norwegian Sewing Circle

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a sewing circle of young girls and women wearing Norwegian costumes.
Poster

Emigrant Rates Poster

Date: 04 01 1867
Description: Castle Garden Emigrant Agency poster advertising railroad travel rates for emigrants.
Poster

Land For Sale Poster

Date: 04 1848
Description: Poster advertising an auction for about 49,000 acres of land for sale in Wisconsin and Illinois by Thomas & Sons Auctioneers.
Photograph

Executive Council, American Federation of Labor

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Back row, left to right: John B. Lennon, ...

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