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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...
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...
Magazine or Periodical

Progressive Magazine McCarthy Issue

Date: 04 1954
Description: Cover of "McCarthy: A Documented Record," a special issue of the Progressive magazine. The cover features a drawing of a Birdseye view of Washington...
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Burning River Oracle

Date: 03 17 1970
Description: Cover of "Burning River Oracle," a free underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of Jesus Christ crucified in front of the silhouette of an urban landsca...
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...
Print

Dairy Farming Graphic

Date: 1931
Description: Graphic pie-chart depicting the important place of dairying in the national farm economy.
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1971
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at 10 Langdon Street. A .75 donation is suggested for the National Gay Convention, on Thankgsgiving in Madison. The...
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,...
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.
Poster

REO Speedwagon at Dewey's

Date: 02 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising a performance by REO Speedwagon at Dewey's. Features a toy wagon at the top.
Photograph

Peter Lorre in M

Date: 1931
Description: Publicity still of Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang's M (1931).
Manuscript

Committee of a Thousand Letter

Date: 07 1957
Description: Letter from Mrs. F.L. "Dixie" Larkin of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to The Wisconsin Conservation Department regarding the use of DDT to control Dutch Elm Diseas...
Manuscript

Will Buy Famous Baraboo Mound

Date: 12 28 1906
Description: Newspaper article about the purchase of land for a park related to Man Mound in Sauk County accompanied by a line drawing of the mound. Article clipped fro...
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

Farmall Corn Picker Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for a mounted corn picker for the F-12 tractor. Features a cartoon drawing of two birds and two ears of corn staring at a ...
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 ...

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