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Book or Pamphlet

Aviation Stories

Date: 1910
Description: The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud."
Book or Pamphlet

Aviation Poem

Date: 10 1910
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Cover of The McCarthy Record

Date: 06 1952
Description: Cover of The McCarthy Record depicting the United States Capitol building and several government documents.
Book or Pamphlet

Log Book Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a log book kept by Preston Reynolds on his canoe trip down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers.
Book or Pamphlet

"Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" Cover

Date: 1926
Description: Cover art of a pamphlet called "Religious and Patriotic Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" (KKK), author W. C. (Walter Carl) Wright, featuring an image of the Ame...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Circus Lore

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of "Wisconsin Circus Lore" written by the Federal Writer's Project in Wisconsin and bound by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The cover features a d...
Book or Pamphlet

The Fighting Finches Cover

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of "The Fighting Finches" by the Federal Writers' Project in Wisconsin and bound by Milwaukee Handicraft Project. There is a drawing of a hand gun on...
Book or Pamphlet

Guide Book User

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of a man standing on a road near a sign reading "Tours" and consulting a guide book.
Book or Pamphlet

WPA Guide to Wisconsin

Date: 1941
Description: Front cover of "Wisconsin: a Guide to the Badger State" featuring a Harold Hone photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol with gilding on the dome.
Book or Pamphlet

Pesticides - a Special Review

Date: 1967
Description: Cover of the Citizens Natural Resources Association of Wisconsin publication Pesticides - a Special Review. The cover features a drawing of a bird o...
Book or Pamphlet

Menus and Recipes for School Lunches

Date: 02 15 1946
Description: Front cover, frontispiece photograph, and page from a publication of the State Board of Health, with half silhouette views of three seated children with mi...
Book or Pamphlet

Title Page of the "Atlas of Dane County"

Date: 1911
Description: The title page of the "Atlas of Dane County, Wisconsin."
Book or Pamphlet

Press Club of Chicago Dinner Menu

Date: 05 02 1902
Description: Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of catalog with a color illustration of a man wearing boots and holding a hat writing in a large book. The text reads: "Twentieth Century Fame, the F...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Brochure

Date: 1902
Description: Brochure front and back cover. The front features a color illustration of a woman holding a large book with plates of agricultural machines. "Manufactured ...
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1933
Description: Embossed image of the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress International Exposition (the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair) decorates the leather cover of...
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1950
Description: Two pandas "scrap" on the embossed leather cover of a scrapbook bearing the title "Snaps and Scraps." Metallic gold highlights the embossed areas. The scra...
Book or Pamphlet

The Pinkerton Labor Spy

Date: 1907
Description: Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b...
Book or Pamphlet

Album Cover

Date: 1905
Description: The front cover of a small album of photographic prints, the majority of which were created by Lucy A. Kaufmann of Montello. The album contains eighteen le...
Book or Pamphlet

Examples of Printed Work

Date: 02 1928
Description: The centerfold of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George Brumder ...

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