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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant". |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office. |
| Date: | 01 13 1950 |
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| Description: | A person's hands holding two U.S.A. National Service Life Insurance Policies. About $60,000,000 in GI Insurance dividends will be divided among 347,000 Wis... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea... |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson and Senator Hubert Humphrey seated at a desk reviewing papers. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
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| Description: | A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Robert Bloch at the Gus Marx ad agency. Gauer credits Bloch with changing Marx into a real "nut." Bloch was expecting to inherit the agenc... |
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| Description: | Milt Polland wearing eyeglasses and a bow tie sits at a cluttered desk with framed photographs visible on the wall in the background. Gauer worked for Poll... |
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| Description: | Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types." |
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| Description: | Gauer as a political player. He is wearing a top hat, holding papers smoking a cigar, and gesturing with his left hand. This photograph was meant to illust... |
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| Description: | Gauer as a political player. He is wearing a top hat, holding papers smoking a cigar, and gesturing with his left hand. This photograph was meant to illust... |
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| Description: | Carter Wells polling on the street, taken for a campaign booklet. He was running for 5th district congress. |
| Date: | 03 27 1939 |
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| Description: | Left to right are: Miss Mildred M. Barber, standing, and Miss Helen Thompson and Miss Helen M. Brooks, both sitting. |
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| Description: | A record photograph of Polland when Gauer was working for him during the war. |
| Date: | 09 14 1967 |
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| Description: | A group of students register for classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 3, Untitled. The poster features a woman with her face buried in her arms, clutching a letter in one hand. The subtit... |
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| Description: | A booth sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America at a fair in Indiana. During the early 1950s UPWA conducted a major outreach effort in the ... |
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| Description: | S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company. |
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