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Postcard

View from Cheeks Hill

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of Baraboo from a hill, showing mainly dwellings. Bluffs are in the far background. Caption reads: "Baraboo, View...
Postcard

2nd Ward Public School

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the public school, a large brick building with a turret in the corner.
Postcard

County Jail

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the County Jail surrounded by a lawn. A sidewalk leads to wide stone steps that rise up to an arched entrance...
Postcard

Catholic Church

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view across street of the front of the Catholic Church, which is a large, stone building. There is a belfry on the lef...
Postcard

Trinity-Episcopal Church

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the stone church. There are four crosses, one on the bell tower, and three others at the corners of the roof....
Postcard

Devil's Lake

Date: 1906
Description: View from bluff of Devil's Lake. A road runs along the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Devil's Lake, Baraboo, Wis."
Postcard

City Hall

Date: 1906
Description: Colorized postcard of an exterior view of City Hall, a brick building with an arched entrance, a flag pole on the left, and a belfry on the right. Caption ...
Postcard

Post Office

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized postcard of a slightly elevated view of the post office. There are wide front steps up to the arched entrance from the sidewalk. The arched entra...
Postcard

Railroad Bridge

Date: 1907
Description: View over water towards a railroad bridge over a river. Trees and shrubs are along the banks of the river. There are buildings in the distance behind the b...
Print

United States Hotel Menu

Date: 09 21 1846
Description: Bill of fare for the United States Hotel, with decorative border ornaments running along the sides, top, and bottom of the menu, and general printed catego...
Document

Milwaukee Circuit Court Decision, Wood vs. Boynton

Date: 06 1884
Description: Document recording the case and ruling in favor of Samuel Boynton in the case brought by Clarissa Wood regarding the sale of the Eagle diamond.
Manuscript

Earth Borer

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne...
Photograph

Irna Phillips Dictacting to Her Secretary

Date: 10 1940
Description: Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary.
Photograph

Irna Phillips and Rose Cooperman

Date: 
Description: Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing.
Photograph

Madge Kennedy at a Writing Desk

Date: 1917
Description: In this scene still for the 1917 Goldwyn production "Baby Mine," Zoie (played by Madge Kennedy) sits at a writing desk and gazes at a photograph of her hus...
Map or Atlas

Map of Woodman's Addition to Mineral Point

Date: 1856
Description: This map of Woodman's Addition in Mineral Point is pen-and-ink on paper. The map includes certifications signed by John B. Whitelaw (surveyor), Cyrus Woodm...
Photograph

Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Spingarn

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Davis Spingarn, a speech writer and special assistant to Cohen in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is an...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Frauen Zeitung"

Date: 09 27 1848
Description: The front page of the newsletter "Frauen-Zeitung."
Manuscript

"Notes from Negroes of Mississippi to the White People of Mississippi"

Date: 
Description: A letter from the perspective of an African American Mississippian to white members of the community.
Map or Atlas

Plot of Lewis's First Addition to the Town of West Columbus Situated in Columbia County and State of Wisconsin

Date: 1856
Description: This map is ink and pencil on paper and shows plat of the town, local streets, and blocks and lots by number. The map includes explanatory text.

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