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Book or Pamphlet

International Scout Dutch Brochure

Date: 1980
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International Scout trucks for the Netherlands. Features a color photograph of three different Scout models. The...
Print

Nativity Scene

Date: 1981
Description: Holiday card with the Christ child in a manger surrounded by four praying children, each of a different race, Native American, African American, Caucasian ...
Map or Atlas

Madeline Island Plat Map

Date: 1981
Description: Plat map of Madeline Island surrounded by Basswood, Michigan and Gull Islands.
Print

Free Men of Color and Choctaw Indian Volunteers at New Orleans

Date: 1982
Description: "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec...
Map or Atlas

Map & Street Guide of Door County, Including Maps of Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1987
Description: This 1987 map of Door County, Wisconsin, shows streets and roads, cities and villages, state parks, lakes and streams, and depths in Lake Michigan. A stree...
Map or Atlas

Mellen, the Home of Copper Falls State Park : You're Among Friends in Mellen, Wisconsin

Date: 1980
Description: This map shows the locations of 42 businesses, roads, points of interest, recreation sites, camping, the North Country Trail and parking, and boundaries of...
Map or Atlas

Oneida County- Where Nature Lingered Longer

Date: 1987
Description: This map shows federal highways, state or county highways, rivers, lakes, town roads, township boundaries, county boundaries, national or state forest, loo...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin's County Forests

Date: 1987
Description: This map shows county forests, state, federal, and interstate highways. County forests lands are shown in light green. The front of the map includes images...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1983
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo...
Postcard

Chapel of Perpetual Adoration

Date: 1982
Description: Interior view from the rear of the Chapel of Perpetual Adoration, part of the Visitation Convent. Four people are sitting or kneeling.
Postcard

Fisherman's Wharf; Gills Rock

Date: 1983
Description: Color view of the marina at Gills Rock. Several privately-owned boats are docked. A wooden pier is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Fisherman's Wharf; Gi...
Postcard

Aerial View of Lac du Flambeau

Date: 1984
Description: Aerial postcard of Lac du Flambeau village and surrounding lakes. Caption reads: "Lac du Flambeau, Wis." Text on reverse reads: "On State Hwy 47 between Po...
Postcard

Vi Teeples and her Eden Point, by Lake Arbutus

Date: 1986
Description: Painting of a woman standing on a beach and holding a spear point in her hand. In the sand near her is a spear, several arrowheads, and a bag. She is weari...
Postcard

The Famous Madison Isthmus

Date: 1980
Description: Elevated view of East Washington Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a glass bank building on the right side of East Washington Avenue. The Y...
Postcard

First Wisconsin National Bank

Date: 1980
Description: Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol of the glass bank on the corner of N. Pinckney Street and East Washington Avenue.
Postcard

Capitol Square from the Air

Date: 1980
Description: Aerial view of Capitol Square and the surrounding central isthmus. Lake Monona is on the right.
Poster

"This is Art" Poster

Date: 1981
Description: Poster of Art Nesson, a well-known figure on State Street. Art made his living as a window washer, dishwasher and manual laborer. He is leaning on a mailbo...
Postcard

Hyde's Mill

Date: 1988
Description: Text on front, at the foot: "Wisconsin." The color image of Hyde's Mill has an overlay of a map of the southwest corner of Wisconsin inside a red frame. Th...

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