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| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa... |
| Date: | 09 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor's Commission on Human Rights in the governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol discussing plans for an upcoming meeting. Pictured from the l... |
| Date: | 09 08 1948 |
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| Description: | The repair and conditioning committee of the West Side Business Men's Association that was in charge of preparing the auction site for the sale to benefit ... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the television special "11:59, Last Minute to Choose," on Madison's WISC-TV Channel 3. Sign reads, "...For the first time on televis... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette standing and holding a pipe. Philip La Follette stands in the background in the shadows. |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a speaking event featuring Julian Bond at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House, May 22, 1971. Features a picture of Bond. Eve... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House, May 27, 1971. Features a negat... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing the 1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival, in Madison's Brittingham Park, September 25, 1971. Event followed by a Dana Beal Memorial An... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Allan J. McAndrews, left, a Madison attorney, was the toastmaster at the Edgewood High School football banquet. Seated at the speakers table with him are B... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Four Truax barracks apartment neighbors who rescued Walter Alburn and two of his children from the Alburn apartment after a kerosene explosion and resultin... |
| Date: | 12 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Dressed in Elizabethan costume during the University of Wisconsin Beefeaters' Dinner in Tripp Commons are: center, Richard Lewis, Eau Claire, president of ... |
| Date: | 09 1971 |
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| Description: | Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and... |
| Date: | 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a "Walk for Development" event, put on by Young World Development. Features three fists with different skin tones, and the motto, "The R... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Recruitment poster for a Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus, advocating the liberation of the Soviet Jewish population. Features large chain links and the phrase "Le... |
| Date: | 10 1967 |
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| Description: | Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster alleging that six men, possibly University of Wisconsin-Madison students, are undercover narcotics agents. Poster was created by the defense league ... |
| Date: | 03 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a pilgrimage for peace and freedom event, converging in Harrisburg, PA, March 25 through April 2, 1972. Features an image of handcuffed ... |
| Date: | 04 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster proclaiming that "Mayday is J-Day," and announcing a marijuana smoke-out at Brittingham Park in Madison. Includes a picture of a winged green block ... |
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