Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 23

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...
Print

Who's Un-American Now? Flyer

Date: 
Description: A flyer titled "Who's Un-American Now?" regarding the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten.
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...
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: 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...
Document

Gayety Theatre Letterhead

Date: 
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...
Print

Modern Woodmen of America Letterhead

Date: 1905
Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern ...
Manuscript

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1949
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a landscape of red abstract shapes along the bottom and left-hand side of the page.
Print

Ben Bergor Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c...
Manuscript

Ben Bergor Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of Ben Bergor, with illustrations of theatrical masks, Bergor's head, his "Remember this bird!" symbol, and a cartoon of Bergor at the bottom of...
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Music by the Lake

Date: 1952
Description: The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi...
Print

Four-fold card "In Memory of My Mother"

Date: 
Description: Four-fold, copy art card with front panel shows a religious statue of a woman sheltering three children under her mantle. On the inside, the left panel a b...
Book or Pamphlet

Christmas Card with Sid Using a Trowel

Date: 
Description: Four-fold, cover with line drawing of a trowel topped by a star standing upright on a broken brick. Inside is a photograph of Sid using a trowel pointing a...
Print

"Love Never Forgives A Sin Against Itself"

Date: 
Description: Two-fold, printed card. One half is a photograph of one chimpanzee clinging tightly to another that has the face of Sid's superimposed on the body. This se...
Print

"Did You Have the Right to Pick Your Own Parents"

Date: 
Description: Two-fold, printed card. Humorous front text reads, "Did you have the right to pick your own parents?" and is signed: "Sid Boyum."
Drawing

Invitation to Ice Chippers Gathering

Date: 
Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers in black ink, white tempura and blue paint on orange card. It is a drawing of Gene Beckman in a black hooded winter coat, kneel...
Print

"Man is Born Broken" Christmas Card

Date: 
Description: Four-fold, copy art card with an image on the inside of a composite photograph and drawing of Sid using a trowel to spread mortar on a brick wall. On the b...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: