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Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design with Flowers

Date: 
Description: Design for a Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp featuring a wood violet, which is the state flower, as well as a jack-in-the-pulpit and a trillium.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Avatar

Date: 08 04 1967
Description: Cover of "The Avatar," an underground newspaper, featuring a charcoal drawing of a woman, facing away, with a pack over her shoulder and a white and red fl...
Drawing

Salzer's Happy Home Collection

Date: 1919
Description: Illustration advertising the Salzer Seed Company's Happy Home collection of 16 plants.
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Drawing

Wisconsin State Spiritualist Association, Inc., Emblem

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Drawing submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Button design with a drawing of a flower and the statement: "Certified W.S.S.A."
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...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Historical Object

Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 1899
Description: A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Evening Record" Front Page

Date: 03 15 1896
Description: Page one of "Evening Record." The handwritten newspaper includes several hand-drawn color illustrations. Beginning in the top left corner, the illustration...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1995
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Watertown, Wisconsin." On the reverse: "Front: A present day view of Main Street in downtown Watertown, Wisconsin, sketc...

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