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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a nautical theme. An open porthole is centered inside a border made of rope with knots in the corners. An anchor is tied to the rope end.... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with three couples of animals dancing; two bears, a seal and a beaver, a fox and a rabbit. They are on a snowbank overlooking the sea with the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the image of a bell. Inside is a scene of a lake with a cottage on the shore. There is a boat on the lake and a church on the opposite sh... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Holiday card showing Navy Pier in Chicago. There is snow on the ground, the lake is frozen and two lines of planes are flying overhead forming a "V" patter... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card made of four pieces. The main piece is of a large shell boat pulled by two swans on a pond filled with water lilies. A cutout of a lar... |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with a girl in a yellow and purple bathing suit and cap, diving into the water. Seagulls fly behind her. The text reads: "I Go... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Hunter's Magnetic Saline Fountain Water which was being given away as promotion by an agent in Fond du Lac. The water supposedly cured rh... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure titled "Soil and Moisture Conservation in the Western Plains Area." Includes the text: "Stop runoff, Reduce Erosion and Evaporation." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive... |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a truck and the United States, largely in red, white and blue. Includes the te... |
| Date: | 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for "rugged" International trucks, featuring a color illustration of men log driving timber down a river with an International truck bear... |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a couple of boys waving at a passing semi-truck (tractor-trailer). Includes t... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a truck driving through the rain, assorted truck parts, and a truck driving pa... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Rubber Company of Madison, Wisconsin, which operated the Florida plantation in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Includes an oval i... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Badger State Tobacco Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the building, men working on boats moored near the water... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Willow Works, a manufacturer of children's carriages, willow ware, and toys, with a three-quarter view of the company building,... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Oshkosh Packing & Provision Company, a meat packer and preserver, with an illustration of the company buildings on the waterfront, with w... |
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