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Immigrants at Ellis Island

Date: 1900
Description: A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island.
Photograph

High School Student with Iwo Jima Image

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: East High School student with an image of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, which was used for a newly issued 3 cent postage stamp. This stamp is ...
Photograph

East High School Graduation Backdrop

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: An East High School student shown with images of the presidents Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, a depiction of an Iwo Jima flag raising and tw...
Drawing

Western Costume Design for "Hud"

Date: 1963
Description: Western ensemble of jeans, shirt, boots, and cowboy hat designed by Edith Head for Paul Newman in the film "Hud" (Paramount, 1963).
Print

Three-Headed Hydra Cartoon

Date: 05 14 1887
Description: Cartoon of a three-headed hydra representing oleomargarine, threatening a farmer.
Photograph

Prohibition vs. License

Date: 1884
Description: Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not.
Photograph

Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" Drawing

Date: 02 03 1947
Description: Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition.
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".
Photograph

Senator Horace Wilke and Four Men

Date: 06 1957
Description: Senator Horace Wilke poses with four other men, one of whom is holding a drawing of a badger/deer creature.
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The Hercules of Labor Saving His Country

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Description: A political cartoon entitled "The Hercules of Labor saving his Country" depicting a man with a sword lopping the heads off a double-headed snake, which is ...
Photograph

Comparison of Tractor Farming and Horse Farming

Date: 1936
Description: A drawing titled: "The Life of Two Farmers" illustrating the difference in work loads between a horse farmer and a Farmall tractor farmer. According to the...
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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...
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
Photograph

Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a farmer using a horse and plow in a field while the image of a tractor and the word "kerosene" is floating above in the s...
Photograph

Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a man driving a Titan 10-20 tractor down a road with markers labeled: "Material Test, Factory Inspection, Brake Test, Draw...
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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 Conscience

Date: 01 1970
Description: Cover of "The Conscience," an underground newspaper, depicting a psychedelic drawing of three men, one standing naked, one leaning and carrying a gun, and ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Chinook

Date: 08 13 1970
Description: Cover of "Chinook," an underground newspaper, featuring an ethereal drawing of a male hiker holding out a sign with an infinity symbol on it, as though he ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Octopus

Date: 1969
Description: Cover of "Octopus," an underground newspaper, featuring five bearded men being restrained by octopus tentacles, reminiscent of the Roman statue of the Laoc...

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