Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | An engraved head and shoulders portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., during the period when he was the governor of Wisconsin. |
Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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Description: | Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud. |
Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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Description: | Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Front of Tuesday luncheon menu for the "South American" for season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Il... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud." |
Date: | 10 1910 |
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Description: | The cover of John T. Trowbridge's poetry book, "Darius Green and his Flying Machine," illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith and published by Houghton Mifflin Co... |
Date: | 11 22 1927 |
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Description: | Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin... |
Date: | 08 28 1912 |
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Description: | A contract letter written on Curtiss Exhibition Co. stationery addressed to John Kaminski of Milwaukee. It offers him a contract to fly at an exhibition at... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Art Deco-style place card with an aviation theme used for a women's luncheon at the Madison College Club. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Passenger ticket and baggage check for Northwest Orient Airlines, illustrating their newly initiated around-the-globe routes to the Far East. This ticket w... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | A baggage sticker that advertises that airline as the "Lindbergh Line" and that is illustrated with a drawing of Lindbergh's plane, the "Spirit of St. Loui... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Mission patch design for Apollo 13. This patch was worn by Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., formerly of Milwaukee; John L. Swigert, Jr.; and Fred W Haise, ... |
Date: | 03 16 1927 |
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Description: | Home Appliance Co. window display of a Maytag washing machine, at 120 E. Main Street. |
Date: | 1957 |
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Description: | Threatening note signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) with rock and rag that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957. The note reads: "The next wil... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright's membership card from the River Forest Tennis Club for the 1908 season. The image on the card is of the River Forest Tennis Club desig... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright's membership card from the River Forest Tennis Club for the 1907 season. The image on the card is of the River Forest Tennis Club desig... |
Date: | 1987 |
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Description: | Anti-lottery bumper sticker reading "Don't be fooled! Lotteries increase your taxes." |
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