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Poster

Janet Higgins Master of Arts Exibition

Date: 01 23 1971
Description: Poster advertising Janet Higgins's art exhibition entitled "People Hangings" held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in the George L. Mosse Huma...
Poster

University of Wisconsin YMCA Photography Center

Date: 02 18 1971
Description: Poster advertising photograph classes at the University of Wisconsin YMCA. A camera case with a camera, light meter, film, and lens tissue is prominately d...
Poster

Black and White Photography Contest

Date: 02 12 1971
Description: Poster advertising a black and white photography contest sponsored by the Union Crafts Committee. Winning photographs would be exhibited in the Union Galle...
Poster

"Hey Man Huey's Coming"

Date: 02 05 1971
Description: Poster featuring a drawing of Huey Newton to advertise his appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Newton helped found the Black Pan...
Poster

Earth Week

Date: 03 13 1971
Description: Poster advertising Earth Week, held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from April 20-25. The poster calls for volunteers to "help us with our fe...
Photograph

Ice Cream at the Corner Grocery

Date: 05 07 1964
Description: The corner grocery is a pleasant place for the pause that refreshes. Thaddeus Moore, 9, of 3271 N. 14th Street, had a cone. Anthony McMillon, 7, of 3287-A ...
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt

Date: 02 09 1959
Description: This photograph won the top award for 1959 Wisconsin Press Photographer's Association Pictures Competition, Personality category. Eleanor Roosevelt was pho...
Photograph

Portrait of George William Piernot

Date: 1970
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of George William Piernot (1922-2000). Piernot served as a member of the Madison Fire Department from about 1946 until his reti...
Photograph

Fire on State Street

Date: 1977
Description: Fire on second floor of turret tower in a brick building at the corner of State and Johnson Streets.
Photograph

Young Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1938
Description: A candid head and shoulders portrait of a young Dickey Chapelle without eyeglasses.
Manuscript

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Commission

Date: 07 1913
Description: A program of events for the reunion of Union and Confederate veterans, including prayers, music, speeches, and fireworks.
Print

Used Truck Bargains

Date: 1932
Description: International Harvester Company sign advertising used trucks. The sign reads, in part: "Used Truck Bargains. The following Used Trucks may be inspected at ...
Print

Used Truck Bargains

Date: 1932
Description: International Harvester Company sign advertising used trucks. The sign reads, in part: "Used Truck Bargains. The following Used Trucks may be inspected at ...
Photograph

Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 08 1946
Description: Paul R. Anderson of DeForest, Wisconsin, winner of the 1946 Madison Soap Box Derby, who went on to race at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. ...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a flatbed truck carrying lumber and a pickup truck carrying plants. Includes t...
Print

International Metro Advertising Proof

Date: 02 1948
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a delivery man and an International Metro truck. Includes the text: "Unchalle...
Print

International KB-8-1 Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 03 1948
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a Model KB-8-1. Includes the text: "New Standard of the Highway The New Inter...
Print

Levi H. Bancroft

Date: 09 10 1910
Description: Campaign poster promoting Levi H. Bancroft as the Republican candidate for Attorney General. The top two-thirds of the poster is a quarter-length portrait ...
Print

Everything Changed But The Paint

Date: 1944
Description: Advertisement with color illustrations for the 1943 "prime mover" reads: "1941 Nothing changed but the paint Everything changed but the paint 1943". The po...

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