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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
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| Description: | Lulu Glaser (1874-1958), renowned Victorian/Edwardian comedic actress and singer. |
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| Description: | Queenie Vassar (1870-1960) Scottish-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1930s and 1940s. |
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| Description: | Miss Batchelor, aspiring actress around the turn of the 19th century. |
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| Description: | Jennie Goldthwaite, a performer from around the turn of the century. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Stuart Robson (1861-1924), actress, started her career as Miss May Waldron. |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
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| Description: | Advertisement promoting Kraft cheese as a picnic food for visitors to Kraftwood Gardens. The advertisement is on the inside back cover of A guide to Kr... |
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| Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is holding a wreath in her left hand and a Union flag in her right hand. A federal (bald) eagle and a cannon are behind her. A verse to her r... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia holding a Union flag with her right hand and pointing with her left. Caption below reads: "I am for Union TO A MAN!" Red and blue ink on beig... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Scene of 16 figures. A slave owner is raising his whip as black families are racing towards Fort Monroe, with some remaining behind picking cotton. The sla... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia standing on a globe of the world. She is wearing a stars and stripes dress and has a sword over her right shoulder. She is pointing forward w... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a red shirt and a blue blouse with seven white stars, presumably Virginia, is shooting herself with a cannon that is marked "SECESSION." Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia holds a Union flag in her left hand and a sword, point down, in her right. To the right the text reads, "THE WAR FOR THE UNION." The letters ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rare "risque" (for the time) design. A row of soldiers look away from their officer at a young lady as she lifts her skirts to step over a puddle, exposi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia stands on the left, she holds the Wisconsin state seal in her left hand and a Union flag in her right. A liberty cap on a pole leans on the s... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Martha Washington appears inside an oval frame, the American flag wraps around the frame on the left side. Over her head in white it reads, "... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia, holding a Union flag with a liberty cap on the pole is leaning on the Illinois state seal, with a Confederate flag under her foot. The text... |
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