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Book or Pamphlet

International 3000 Series Advertising Brochure

Date: 1988
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising International 3000 Series bus chassis. Features a close-up of a school bus front grille.
Print

International Schoolmaster School Bus Brochure

Date: 1974
Description: Front cover of a brochure for International Schoolmaster school buses. Features a photograph of little league baseball players getting off a bus.
Book or Pamphlet

International School Bus Brochure

Date: 1981
Description: Front cover of a brochure advertising International Schoolmaster school buses. Features children boarding a bus in the rain. The children are wearing yello...
Book or Pamphlet

International School Bus Brochure

Date: 1972
Description: Cover of a brochure advertising International school buses. Features a boy and a girl boarding a school bus. The headline reads: "Route Matched."
Drawing

Little Rock Sheet Music

Date: 
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

What Shall We Do about Our School?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Front cover of University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 dealing with rural schools. The cover features a drawing of two children walki...
Manuscript

American Book Company Statement of Policy

Date: 03 1962
Description: Photostat copy of statement of policy from American Book Company, publisher of McGuffey Readers, indicating that the company did not advocate use of the Re...
Print

School Funding Chart

Date: 1940
Description: Flyer titled In Wisconsin, School Costs Are the Heaviest Burden on General Property Taxpayers published by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities wi...
Manuscript

Letter to Senator James B. Swan

Date: 03 14 1973
Description: Letter from Michael Bystry to Senator James Swan regarding school funding. The letter is written on S.W. Dairy Corp letterhead. The letterhead features an ...
Manuscript

Class Portrait

Date: 1935
Description: Vintage photograph, dated ca. 1890, with a wraparound handwritten message from Miss Louise Parke to her beloved teacher, Miss Mary L. Edgar, is part of a M...
Print

Martin Luther King Broadside

Date: 1963
Description: "Martin Luther King .... at Communist Training School," a broadside received by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, while civil rights legislation was bei...
Print

International School Bus Advertisement

Date: 1921
Description: Advertisement for "International School Busses," including an illustration of a school bus and the text: "sturdy-dependable-economical; backed by unexcelle...
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
Book or Pamphlet

Benton County Freedom Train Newsletter Cover

Date: 07 15 1964
Description: The cover design of the Benton County Freedom Train newsletter printed with purple ink, probably mimeographed.
Book or Pamphlet

Cover of the Freedom News

Date: 07 10 1964
Description: The cover of the newsletter the Freedom News.
Magazine or Periodical

We The People: Hortonville Strike

Date: 1974
Description: Front page of the labor newspaper We The People. The issue is dedicated to the teachers strike in Hortonville and features a drawing of people march...
Magazine or Periodical

Earth Day Advertisement

Date: 04 1970
Description: Fundraising advertisement for the Environmental Teach-In on April 22 in honor of Earth Day. The first sentence reads: "A disease has infected our country."...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Emphemera

Date: 
Description: A yellow poster with black text for "A Bipartisan Party" for George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which reads: "Tele...

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