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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
| Date: | 12 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster commissioned by Community Service Radio Inc., WLVE, based in Baraboo and Madison and by Newsradio WIBU based in Poynette. Features a cartoon of Sant... |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a Hare Krishna "Self-Awakening Program" sessions in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Radha Krishna Temple, at 313 N. Livingston Street. Includ... |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Dane County Jr. Fair at the Madison fairgrounds, July 18 through 22, 1973. Features a screen printed illustration of a clown, a ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting summer performances by The Wisconsin Peoples History Players. High contrast graphic depiction of dancers and jugglers in front of a blue b... |
| Date: | 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster for a graduate piano recital of "Giuseppi Antonio Ricardo Piazza," at the Music Hall Auditorium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, 4:00 ... |
| Date: | 07 12 |
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| Description: | Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" fea... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Virginia Historical Pageant, held in Richmond, VA, May 22-28, 1922. Featuring the Henry Day Lowry Metropolit... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 4th of July celebration in Oostburg, Wisconsin. The featured entertainment consisted of acts for which the Ben Bergor Entertainment Agency w... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. The top banner reads: "C.S. Primrose presents the musical comedy farce 'Don't Lie to Your Wife'." Below this, upper right, is the author'... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph. Across the top banner in caps is "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production," underneath is "Gen'l Lew Wallace's Ben Hur." This is follow... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. The top caption reads in caps: "Klaw and Erlanger's stupendous production." Beneath this is the title against a red filed, and o... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | This color lithograph poster shows a man in blackface with a giant rooster standing behind him looking over his shoulder. In the lower left corner, the act... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man and woman look out of a window at people picking cotton in a field. The two are well-dressed. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Judge C.E. Randall. The poster features Uncle Sam holding up a sheet of paper with the quarter-length portrait of the candidate printed... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Czechoslovakian film poster for the French film "La tulipe noire." Collage image of a swashbuckler dressed in black and holding a sword while standing in a... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the French film. Illustrated image of a man carrying a woman. They are both dressed in red, white, ... |
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