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Photograph

Milwaukee Grain Exchange Room

Date: 1910
Description: Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo...
Photograph

Capitol Dome Construction Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of the crew that constructed the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The new East Wing is visible in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court Detail

Date: 1903
Description: Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker...
Photograph

Fire Company

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Fire Department, consisting of 17 individual oval portraits and the station on Webster Street.
Painting

Lacrosse Game

Date: 10 07 1934
Description: James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game.
Print

No Place Like Home

Date: 03 20 1946
Description: Original, inscribed political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, showing Robert M. La Follette, Jr., carrying the Wisconsin Progressive Party back to the Rep...
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Poster

Chisholm for President Poster

Date: 03 1972
Description: Campaign poster supporting Shirley Chisholm, an African American woman who was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from ...
Poster

American Flag Ship Travel Poster

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph depicting a scene aboard a United States Lines passenger ship, featuring what appears to be the New York City skyline in the backgro...
Poster

The American Way Travel Poster

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph depicting a scene aboard a United States Lines passenger ship, featuring a man and a woman looking toward the ocean's horizon.
Poster

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Poster

Date: 1920
Description: An original lithograph featuring Buffalo Bill riding his horse. The poster was created for Buffalo Bill's Wild West circus show, as part of the Sells Floto...
Poster

New York Central Lines Chicago Poster

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin...
Poster

Travel By Train, California Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting California as a summer's destination to be reached by train. The poster features a woman in a vibrant yellow dress overloo...
Poster

Travel By Train, New York Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Patriotic Poster No. 1

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts...
Poster

New York Central Lines Travel Poster: The Palisades of the Hudson

Date: 1947
Description: An original lithograph promoting "The Palisades of the Hudson," via the New York Central lines train system. The poster depicts a dramatic cliff overlookin...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: Building The First White House

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania Railroad through artist N.C. Wyeth's depiction of the 1798 construction of the firs...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
Poster

British Railways Travel Poster: Chester

Date: 1953
Description: An original lithograph promoting the British Railways through the artist Felix Kelly's depiction of the Chester cathedral, which includes the choir stalls.

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