Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 20

Photograph

Hollywood Ten Discussion

Date: 1947
Description: At a luncheon sponsored by Americans for Democratic Action, Paul Hays, chair of the ADA New York chapter, discusses the congressional investigation of Holl...
Photograph

Drawing on a Building

Date: 1969
Description: A drawing of a man on the side of a building, perhaps the remains of a poster. On the left is an orange spray painted area.
Photograph

"Why Monkey Around" Billboard

Date: 1969
Description: Close-up of an advertisement that reads, "Why Monkey Around with breakdowns, repairs, insurance, etc." There is a cartoon monkey pointing to the dialogue a...
Photograph

Church with Bell Tower

Date: 1969
Description: A church with a bell tower is in the foreground. The framework of one of the towers of the World Trade Center is in the background.
Photograph

Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon

Date: 1915
Description: Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad...
Photograph

Radical Editor

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h...
Photograph

The "Guardian's" 40th Anniversary

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha...
Photograph

Farewell to Belfrage

Date: 1955
Description: Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t...
Photograph

Edward R. Murrow at OPC

Date: 12 27 1957
Description: Edward R. Murrow, standing near the banner, speaks to a special Overseas Press Club luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria honoring CBS correspondents. Immediatel...
Print

The War for the Union, New York City

Date: 1860
Description: A white sailor and a Native American man are sitting on the ground near the water, with ships in the distance. The colonist is holding a sextant in his lef...
Photograph

The Incomparable Hildegarde

Date: 03 1941
Description: Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D...
Photograph

Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
Print

The Presidential Candidates

Date: 1856
Description: Engravings of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican and Know Nothing parties for the Tuesday, November 4th, 185...
Poster

Demonstrate No Confidence

Date: 1976
Description: Political poster urging citizens to "Demonstrate No Confidence" in neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. The poster has a cartoon of the Republican el...
Poster

Peoples Free Film Festival

Date: 07 01 1976
Description: Rainbow filmstrip poster for the 1ST Annual Peoples Free Film Festival. Text includes: "it's free but donations needed, Sheep Meadow, Central Park. Childre...
Print

American Newspaper Publishers Association Menu

Date: 1957
Description: Exterior of menu for the Banshee Luncheon at the 1957 American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) convention. Features a bearded figure in a green sui...
Print

American Newspaper Publishers Association Menu Interior

Date: 1957
Description: Interior of the menu for the Banshee Luncheon of the 1957 American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) convention. Features a bearded figure in a green...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Date: 03 1777
Description: Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea...
Map or Atlas

Plan of the City of New York

Date: 1789
Description: Map of New York City showing ward boundaries, ferries, streets, roads, swamps, ponds, and rivers. The properties of Lispinard, Byards, Jones, Rutgers, and ...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the City and Environs of New York in North America

Date: 1776
Description: Fairly detailed map of New York City and parts of Long Island. It shows streets, roads, wharves, ferries, ship yards, Fort George and the battery, public b...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: