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Book or Pamphlet

La Follette on the Firing Line

Date: 04 1907
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing an audience of 12,000 in Los Angeles. The photograph is on the cover of a pamphlet entitled "La Follette On The Firi...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly of 1881

Date: 1881
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company building at the Paris Exposition in France. Several men, a woman...
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower in Paris

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower at or near the Paris Exposition in France. The Auto-Mower was an experimental gasoline-powered mowing machine. This i...
Photograph

Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
Magazine or Periodical

Frank Lloyd Wright on the Cover of "Harvester World"

Date: 08 1950
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright posing on the cover of "Harvester World" magazine. Wright is sitting at a desk at Taliesin.
Photograph

Hon. William D. Hoard

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of William Dempster Hoard. He is wearing a suit and a striped tie. Hoard's signature is reproduced below the portrait.
Photograph

Governor Patrick J. Lucey

Date: 
Description: Signed portrait of Governor Patrick J. Lucey, Wisconsin's 38th governor. He is sitting in an elaborate chair behind a desk. In the background hangs the Wis...
Photograph

George B. Goodwin

Date: 1860
Description: Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of George B. Goodwin.
Drawing

"I'm a Lifeguard for Good Meats"

Date: 
Description: Advertising design for Nepco Meats, Co. showing a man in a sailor hat and overalls floating in a life buoy. Text on the right reads: "I'm a lifeguard for g...
Photograph

United Bavarian Society Winter Festival Concert

Date: 02 10 1957
Description: A man playing a two-necked contraguitar while another man is playing a zither. Caption reads: "A bass guitar and zither were played by Hans Glieber ...
Print

Samuel Adams

Date: 1774
Description: Engraved portrait of Samuel Adams, a Founding Father of the United States and 4th Governor of Massachusetts (1792-1794). Adams' portrait is framed in an ov...

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