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Photograph

Hostesses with International Ambulance

Date: 1941
Description: Ruth Ellison, TWA hostess, looks into an an International D-15-M (Metro) truck converted into an ambulance and sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service w...
Book or Pamphlet

Heider Tractor Farm Efficiency Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Interior spread of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise Heider tractors. Four photographs of the tractor in use are accompanied...
Book or Pamphlet

Tractor Disc Harrow Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Inner spread of a brochure produced by the Rock Island Plow Company to advertise the Rock Island No.38 tractor disc harrow. The advertisement features an i...
Book or Pamphlet

Monarch Tractor Advertisement

Date: 1926
Description: Front cover of a booklet produced by Monarch Tractors Incorporated to advertise the new ten-ton Monarch tractor.
Book or Pamphlet

Pioneer Power Advertisement

Date: 1926
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising Pioneer Power agricultural machinery featuring an illustration of a tractor and the headline: "Let's Talk Dollars and...
Manuscript

Freemen of Ohio

Date: 07 02 1813
Description: A handbill circulated by Governor Meigs and General McArthur of Ohio in an effort to recruit men into the local militia. Men were needed to serve against t...
Print

Russian McCormick Advertisement

Date: 1912
Description: Front cover of a Russian booklet advertising McCormick agricultural machinery. The cover features an illustration of a woman and child standing in front of...
Photograph

Bartender Cleaning Glassware

Date: 12 24 1970
Description: Bartender Albert Rosen cleaning glassware behind the bar. Rosen has a cigarette in his mouth as he cleans. Men can be seen in the background at the bar. Th...
Book or Pamphlet

Allis-Chalmers Agricultural Year Book Cover

Date: 1933
Description: Front cover of the Allis-Chalmers Agricultural Year Book No. 33 featuring a photograph of a man using a tractor and plow.
Book or Pamphlet

Square Turn Farm Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Albaugh-Dover Square-Turn farm tractor. The cover features a color illustration of a man using a tractor on a farm...
Print

Albaugh-Dover Farm Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: A man is reading a booklet advertising the Albaugh-Dover square turn farm tractor. The text reads: "The Farm Tractor You Have Waited For is Here. A One Man...
Book or Pamphlet

Eagle Farm Engines

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Eagle farm engines. The Eagle Manufacturing Company was based in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Possible Female Vice Presidential Nominees

Date: 07 09 1984
Description: Seven buttons or stickers with the names and faces of possible female Vice-Presidential nominees. Walter Mondale was determined to choose a woman for his r...
Book or Pamphlet

The International Bulletin

Date: 1921
Description: Cover of the "International Bulletin," a company magazine devoted to the International truck line. Includes a small illustration of a truck on a city stree...
Map or Atlas

Ancient Works at Indian Prairie

Date: 1850
Description: Map showing Indian mounds and graves as well as ground cover types at Township 8, Range 22. There is an inset diagram of an effigy mound labeled "The Cross...
Map or Atlas

Ancient Works, Second Ward, Milwaukee

Date: 
Description: Map showing Indian mounds in Milwaukee's Second Ward from a sketch made by Increase Lapham in 1836. Streets shown on the map include 6th Street, 5th Street...
Photograph

"Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: A behind the scenes photograph of the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Joel McCrea is on a platform high above a group standing below. Alfred Hitch...
Drawing

Beekeeper on Top of Capitol Building

Date: 
Description: Drawing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Features the dome with the "Wisconsin" statue replaced by a seated beekeeper wearing protective clothing, ...
Drawing

New Beekeeper with Books

Date: 
Description: Black and white drawing of a beekeeper sitting on a hive box leaning against a tree, his chin resting on his hand. He is holding a book titled "The Hive an...
Photograph

Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 09 16 1919
Description: Alma Schmidt poses for a waist-up portrait on the day of her wedding to William F. Petersen. She holds her bouquet of sweet peas and lilies of the valley. ...

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