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Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Poster

Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix (Electric Railways of Valais in Chamonix) railway. The poster...
Painting

Burch-Bolden Family Homestead

Date: 1906
Description: This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes...
Painting

Sunrise on Lake Monona

Date: 1884
Description: Sunrise over Lake Monona and the Madison, Wisconsin isthmus, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol building in the distance.
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover. Features a chromolithograph of a woman holding flowers in her skirt. The woman is standing next to a buck who is wearing a ...
Poster

Original-Genuine Horlick's Malted Milk

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement featuring a young girl dressed in a blue dress with a white apron, red necktie, and pink bonnet. The girl is holding a box of Horlick's Malte...
Postcard

A Yuletide Greeting

Date: 1910
Description: A Christmas greeting postcard with an illustration of a winter scene of a woman standing in the snow near a bridge, framed by a wreath of holly and berries...
Photograph

Camp

Date: 1930
Description: Red poppies and other wildflowers are blooming in profusion near a camp of seven tents. Towels or laundry are hanging from clotheslines, and there is an au...

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