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Photograph

Class on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Date: 12 06 1967
Description: Instructor teaching the harmful effects of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs.
Poster

"Don't Rely on a Chemical High, Try Jesus"

Date: 04 29 1970
Description: Handmade poster that reads, "Don't rely on a chemical high, try Jesus." Includes a drawing of a hippie figure, wearing a vest with a button that says, "Ha...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Rag

Date: 03 1969
Description: Cover of "The Rag." an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a young-looking girl smoking a marijuana joint.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Screw

Date: 05 16 1969
Description: Cover of "The Screw," an underground newspaper, featuring the naked torso of a woman, holding a pipe in her lap. Caption at the bottom reads, "Warning-to a...
Poster

WISC-TV Channel 3 Program Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for the television special "11:59, Last Minute to Choose," on Madison's WISC-TV Channel 3. Sign reads, "...For the first time on televis...
Poster

Dana Beal Liberation Poster

Date: 09 1971
Description: Poster advocating the liberation of Dana Beal, a marijuana legalization advocate who had been recently apprehended in Madison. Poster features a stylized i...
Poster

1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival

Date: 09 1971
Description: Poster publicizing the 1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival, in Madison's Brittingham Park, September 25, 1971. Event followed by a Dana Beal Memorial An...
Poster

Inter-State Narcotic Association Marijuana Warning Poster

Date: 09 1971
Description: Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and...
Poster

Mayday is J-Day Poster

Date: 04 1972
Description: Poster proclaiming that "Mayday is J-Day," and announcing a marijuana smoke-out at Brittingham Park in Madison. Includes a picture of a winged green block ...
Poster

Drug Information Center

Date: 1970
Description: Poster announcing the opening of the Drug Information Center near the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus at 420 Lake Street. Featuring a hand-drawn d...
Photograph

H .B. Warner in a closeup scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In the title role for the silent drama "The Beggar of Cawnpore," the actor H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in ...
Photograph

H. B. Warner in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India redu...
Photograph

"Stop the Violence" Rally

Date: 05 20 1989
Description: Two young men stand together. One is holding a sign that is barely visible. Next to him is another sign that reads "Come and help STOP the VIOLENCE". Capti...
Poster

"The Connection" British Quad Poster

Date: 
Description: British quad poster for the 1961 film The Connection by Shirley Clarke. Black and white woodcut of four musicians playing the piano, drums, saxophone and s...
Manuscript

Report: Reducing Licit Amphetamine Supply

Date: 09 18 1978
Description: The front page of a report titled: "Reducing Licit Amphetamine Supply: Results In Wisconsin."
Manuscript

Graph: Secobarbital Purchases

Date: 1977
Description: A graph showing Secobarbital purchases in Wisconsin per capita.
Manuscript

Graphs: Secobarbital Purchases

Date: 1977
Description: A graph detailing Secobarbital purchases in Wisconsin by zip-zones.

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