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Photograph

Alice in Dairyland and Elsie the Cow

Date: 1948
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, and Elsie the Cow and her calf Beauregard, stand on a parade float with two men in downtown Milwaukee, while a male o...
Print

Centennial Exposition Brochure

Date: 1948
Description: Color brochure advertising the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair. For the centennial of Wisconsin statehood Wisconsin spent over 5 Million dollars on fourteen new ...
Drawing

Wisconsin Postage Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: 3 cent stamp design with a Wisconsin theme in blue.
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: Design in pencil for the Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent stamp featuring a cow's head and an arm holding a hammer.
Drawing

Wisconsin Postage Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: A red Wisconsin themed stamp design.
Drawing

Wisconsin Postage Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: A green Wisconsin flag themed stamp design.
Drawing

Wisconsin Postage Stamp Design

Date: 1948
Description: A reddish Wisconsin America's Dairyland themed stamp design.
Map or Atlas

Official Map Wisconsin Centennial Exposition August 7-29

Date: 1948
Description: This map of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition is oriented with north to the right. The right hand margin includes "Outstanding Events of the Grandstand P...
Map or Atlas

Milwaukee and Suburbs

Date: 1948
Description: This map of Milwaukee and surrounding suburbs includes an index to the orange bus, rapid transit, street car, trackless trolley, and the green bus lines. T...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Boundaries of Original Purchases (1835) Forming Nucleus of Present-Day Milwaukee

Date: 1948
Description: This map is ink on tracing paper and shows acreages, wards, streets, rivers, and Lake Michigan. Also included are editorial notes in pencil.
Map or Atlas

South Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin

Date: 1948
Description: This map shows the land parcels, streets, and parks near the harbor. It includes a wind chart and 7 cross sections of borings/probings and docks. It also i...

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