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Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartoonist Walt Kelly draws small sketches of Pogo and signs autographs for two fans.
Photograph

Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartnoonist Walt Kelly draws one of his famous cartoon characters for an audience of veterans at the Veterans Hospital.
Photograph

Andy Gump Statue

Date: 1925
Description: The Andy Gump statue on the grounds of the late Sidney Smith, cartoonist, estate. The statue represents Smith's popular cartoon figure, and at the time of ...
Photograph

Governor Goodland with Handicapped Children

Date: 04 15 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland seated with handicapped children, probably in a movie theater. A large cutout of Dopey, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is o...
Postcard

High Life in Milwaukee

Date: 1911
Description: Humorous cartoon postcard showing a man flying an airplane constructed primarily of beer bottles, pretzels and sausages, and powered by Miller beer over th...
Photograph

Ken Ernest Sketching University of Wisconsin Co-eds

Date: 02 05 1947
Description: Cartoonist Ken Ernst and five University of Wisconsin Badger Beauties, one of whom he will select to be cast as one of the characters in his "Mary Worth" ...
Photograph

Ken Ernst Sketching Ruth Schmitt

Date: 02 05 1947
Description: Cartoonist Ken Ernst sketching Badger Beauty Ruth Schmitt whom he selected to represent a new character in his comic strip "Mary Worth".
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!
Print

No Place Like Home

Date: 03 20 1946
Description: Original, inscribed political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, showing Robert M. La Follette, Jr., carrying the Wisconsin Progressive Party back to the Rep...
Print

MacArthur Returns

Date: 04 18 1951
Description: After his dismissal by President Truman, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States and was welcomed as a folk hero. The adulation heaped on...
Print

Clare Briggs Book Cover

Date: 1922
Description: Front cover for a book version of the popular comic strip by Clare Briggs (1875-1930), who was raised in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Photograph

Randall School Cub Scout Pack 302

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Cub Scout Den 7 of Pack 302, Randall School, at their annual Blue and Gold banquet. They are with a display that depicts Mickey Mouse and probably Pluto, w...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ramparts Magazine Cover

Date: 04 1966
Description: Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Second Coming

Date: 10 05 1970
Description: Cover of "The Second Coming," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a red-haired woman exclaiming in a speech bubble, "Don't fergit [sic]...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Gothic Blimp Works

Date: 1969
Description: Cover of "Gothic Blimp Works," an underground comic newspaper, featuring a cartoon by Robert Crumb.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: It Ain't Me Babe

Date: 04 07 1970
Description: Cover of "It Ain't Me Babe," an underground comic newspaper, featuring hippie scientists in a lab having just brought to life the bride of Frankenstein. Ma...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Fifth Estate

Date: 02 19 1970
Description: Cover of "The Fifth Estate," an underground newspaper, featuring a grim reaper figure wearing an American flag-patterned tie, and holding a man's severed h...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Liberated Guardian

Date: 05 01 1970
Description: Cover of "Liberated Guardian," an underground newspaper, featuring black rebel soldiers carrying firearms. The central figure has a button with a photograp...

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