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Photograph

Joseph Schlitz

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Description: Engraved portrait of Joseph Schlitz. His signature is beneath the image.
Print

Governor James T. Lewis

Date: 1865
Description: Engraved portrait of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis. Lewis' signature is below the engraving, and underneath the signature is printed: "Governor of Wiscons...
Document

Milwaukee Exposition Association Letterhead

Date: 1883
Description: Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event.
Manuscript

Business Stationery of George Peck

Date: 1882
Description: Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a...
Book or Pamphlet

Petroglyph Designs

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Description: A variety of petroglyph designs originating on the Marquesas Islands.
Photograph

Portrait of Rudolph Valentino from The Son of the Sheik

Date: 1926
Description: Rudolph Valentino stands with his hands on his hips and wears a white turban in a publicity still from The Son of the Sheik (UA, 1926).
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Circus Lore

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of "Wisconsin Circus Lore" written by the Federal Writer's Project in Wisconsin and bound by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The cover features a d...
Magazine or Periodical

Tractor Tilling Cartoon

Date: 07 1917
Description: Cartoon entitled :"A Hint to The Sceptic" featuring a conversation between a farmer and a mule, intended to entice farmers into trying Smith Form-a-Tractor...
Book or Pamphlet

Frackelton Design

Date: 1886
Description: Color plate number III from Susan Frackelton's Tried by Fire showing a Vinenna style of decoration.
Photograph

The Special Beatle Survey

Date: 09 04 1964
Description: Special Beatle Survey, featuring a list of Beatles songs, as well as portraits along the left side, of George Harrison, George Harrison, John Lennon, and R...
Photograph

Portrait of Harrison Ludington

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Harrison Ludington. He has muttonchops, and is wearing a suit, necktie and high collar.
Historical Object

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 10 1992
Description: Cover of a presidential political campaign comic book. The writer is Larry Doyle, and the illustrator is Alan Kupperberg.
Book or Pamphlet

Salzer Seed Company Advertisement

Date: 1903
Description: An illustration in the John A. Salzer's Seed Company catalog featuring a variety of fruit in large bowl, including apples, cherries, etc. There is a small...
Photograph

Mary Mathews Adams

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Description: Photograph of a framed painting of Mary Mathews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works i...

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