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Wisconsin State Capitol Planting Design

Date: 1911
Description: Architectural watercolor of a planting design for the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Drawing

Arrangement and Planting Design for Sycamore, Illinois

Date: 1915
Description: Drawings and blueprints of the arrangement and planting design of a small town.
Book or Pamphlet

Lawson Design

Date: 1918
Description: A design for the unbuilt "Lawson Battler," which Alfred Lawson conceived as an armored fighter plane armed with six machine guns.
Book or Pamphlet

Lawson Aircraft Ad

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for Lawson Aircraft during the period when the company was based in Green Bay and developing a military trainer. Lawson built several planes...
Postcard

Streetcar Viaduct

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view across valley toward a streetcar viaduct on the Waukesha Interurban Line, near Milwaukee. Caption reads: "Street Car Bridge on Waukesha Inter...
Postcard

Whitefish Bay Street Railroad

Date: 1911
Description: Colorized view of the railroad curve near Whitefish Bay resort. Caption reads: "The Curve near Whitefish Bay Resort."
Drawing

Important Causes of Death in Wisconsin 1912

Date: 1912
Description: Illustration of a chart listing "important causes of death in Wisconsin". Extra text reads "You Make Life What It Is!" and "What will the Future bring You ...
Drawing

Rankin Science Hall

Date: 1910
Description: View of Rankin Science Hall at Carroll College.
Drawing

McCormick Residence First Floor Plan

Date: 07 13 1910
Description: First floor plan of the Chicago residence of Nettie Fowler McCormick, widow of Cyrus Hall McCormick. The plan presents alterations and additions to the ori...
Document

McCormick Residence West Elevation

Date: 07 13 1910
Description: Blueprint of the west elevation of the Chicago residence of Nettie Fowler McCormick, widow of Cyrus Hall McCormick. The plan presents alterations and addit...
Drawing

The Teenie Weenies: An Unwelcome Guest

Date: 06 17 1916
Description: "An Unwelcome Guest." Three Teenie Weenie women walk into a bedroom surprised to see a mouse peacfully sleeping - in a Teenie Weenie bed!
Drawing

The Teenie Weenies

Date: 1915
Description: An original ink drawing of William Donahey's "Teenie Weenies". The colorful drawing features several Teenie Weenies. Turk, the Sailor and others pull a pie...
Drawing

Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
Drawing

Proposed Union Religious Center

Date: 1917
Description: Proposed Union Religious Center for the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Cooperating bodies, January 1, 1917: Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutheran...
Print

Print of an American System-Built House

Date: 1916
Description: Halftone print of a perspective drawing of model home B11. Frank Lloyd Wright outlined his vision of affordable housing. He asserted that the home would ha...
Print

Print of an American System-Built House

Date: 1916
Description: Print of a perspective drawing for an American System-Built Home by Rudolph Schindler. Frank Lloyd Wright outlined his vision of affordable housing. He ass...
Drawing

Bird Effigy Diagram

Date: 04 12 1912
Description: Diagram of a bird effigy mound found in Frost's Woods, Blooming Grove Township.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1911
Description: A pencil on paper, hand-drawn map of Wisconsin, showing the counties of the state.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin in 1865

Date: 1916
Description: A pen on paper, hand-drawn map that shows the railroads, rivers, county outlines, and cities and villages in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and the western ...
Map or Atlas

Population Dot Maps of Southern Wisconsin

Date: 1912
Description: This map is pen, ink, and pencil on tracing paper. The map was traced from U.S. Geological Survey map of Wisconsin, compiled in 1910-1911, and printed in 1...

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