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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | An Unconditional Union ticket printed in Indiana in 1864 in support of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The support for Lincoln's prose... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Monroe County Republican Party ticket, headed by James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Blaine lost to the Democrat Grover Cleveland. Names on the statewide ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Campaign sticker for the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The use of the apple theme was a subtle reminder to those who might be tempted to vote for ... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster of the Potosi Brewing Company, advertising a new holiday beer introduced by the new director of brewing, Joe Tschida. The poster includes his photo... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Composited silk screen images including seashells, flowers, rock formation, rolling pins and a human skull. Poster is promoting the work of Tom Hunt and Ti... |
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| Description: | Logo for Women Uniting To End the War consisting of a shopping cart with an X over it. |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting a kneeling man with a rope around his neck, held by one of a group of demonic-looking Ku Klux Klansmen (KKK), entitled "Plan of the Con... |
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| Description: | Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t... |
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| Description: | Lithograph of thirty-six Union army corps badges reproduced in color. |
| Date: | 08 02 1862 |
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| Description: | Civil War Union Army recruitment poster. |
| Date: | 12 1864 |
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| Description: | Andrew Gallup's commission in the 6th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. A certificate printed in black ink with a red seal of Wisconsin attached, ha... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Reverse side of a Russian 500 ruble bank note issued in 1912. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Russian 500 ruble bank note, featuring a portrait of Emperor Peter I, the Great (1682-1725). |
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| Description: | A lithograph of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman, Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, and Rear-Admiral David Dixon Porter below the figure of a woman hol... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Portrait of reunion banquet of the Army of the Potomac in New York City. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A smiling devil with wings is holding a large jar of C.S.A. Whiskey marked with a poison symbol, and a Confederate flag sticking out of it. Blue and red in... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Membership card of the Bow Tie Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The card features a drawing of a bow tie with a jewel in the center of the knot and the words "T... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An elephant wearing boots is carrying a banner that reads: "I ALWAYS WIN." The banner has a face on the left end and is holding up the elephant's tail with... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Depiction of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Boston, Massachusetts. On the border surrounding the group portrait are ind... |
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