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A Sure-Fire Winner

Date: 06 17 1929
Description: Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co...
Photograph

Cover of Brochure for "Salt of the Earth"

Date: 
Description: Cover of a brochure promoting the film "Salt of the Earth" showing Rosaura Revueltas, with the text, "At last-an honest movie about American working people...
Book or Pamphlet

International Travelall Tow Wagons

Date: 1971
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International Travelall tow wagons with the slogan: "Get away from it all." Features color photograph of a campi...
Photograph

Bruce Barton and Cecil B. DeMille

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Description: Bruce Barton posing with Cecil B. Demille, who is holding a copy of Bartons' book "The Man Nobody Knows".
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Needle

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Needle," an underground magazine published in New York. The cover art, featuring a cherub-like creature with the face of Robert Kennedy, was ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ramparts Magazine Cover

Date: 04 1966
Description: Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni...
Photograph

Daniel Travanti

Date: 05 1986
Description: Daniel J. Travanti in the lobby of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Daniel J. Travanti was a lead actor in the television weekly series "Hill Str...
Drawing

Little Rock Sheet Music

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Description: "Nine Brown Heroes and Heroines" sheet music by A.H. Hamilton, pastor of St. Paul's A.M.E. church in Pueblo, Colorado, with music by Mary Maloney. The musi...
Manuscript

Gay Arts Festival Flyer

Date: 1977
Description: The Madison Committee for Gay Rights sponsored the Gay Arts Festival in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus,...
Photograph

"Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention"

Date: 10 24 1970
Description: A poster advertising a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Beloit College Field House, October 24, 1970.
Magazine or Periodical

"Environmental Action" Cover Design

Date: 03 03 1970
Description: The cover design of the magazine "Environmental Action: April 22" featuring a line drawing of multititudes of people clinging to and falling off of the Ear...
Magazine or Periodical

"Wisconsin Engineer" Magazine Cover

Date: 10 1969
Description: Cover design on the magazine "Wisconsin Engineer". The image illustrates the story "The Population Explosion" by depicting a mass of starving people trying...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Testimonial Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure with testimonial letters from International Harvester customers. Features a drawing of a man looking over the shoulder of ...
Print

Cover of McCormick-Deering 1939 Calendar

Date: 1938
Description: "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps.
Book or Pamphlet

The Fabulous Green Bay Packers

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of a Milwaukee Journal publication commemorating the Green Bay Packers 1967 championship season. The cover features a drawing by Gregg Klees o...
Book or Pamphlet

Packers Official Program

Date: 1952
Description: Cover of a 1952 Green Bay Packers Official Program. Features artwork by Lon Keller depicting a football player making a catch on a background of autumn col...
Book or Pamphlet

Packers Official Program

Date: 1956
Description: Official program for the August 25, 1956 football game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants. The cover features artwork by Lon Keller show...
Print

Packers Official Program

Date: 1939
Description: Cover of an official program for the football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Cardinals played at Wisconsin State Fair Park. The cover f...
Print

"Fat, Fair and Forty" Sales Bulletin

Date: 01 17 1940
Description: Cover of an International Harvester Sales Department bulletin, featuring a cartoon of two women and a man over the text: "'Fat, Fair, and Forty' So goes th...
Document

Gayety Theatre Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Gayety Theatre, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the name of the theatre in an oval embellished with outlines of flowers and leaves, flanked...

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