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Photograph

The Things I Love

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a rutted, one lane country road is mounted with a printed border on a sheet of beige paper with a short essay printed alongside...
Photograph

The Lure of Devil's Lake

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a scene along the wooded shore of Devil's Lake is mounted on a piece of beige paper. The scene features an old section of a woo...
Photograph

The Lure of Devil's Lake

Date: 1920
Description: A hand-tinted photograph of a tree-framed scene along the shore of Devil's Lake is mounted on a piece of beige paper. A large bluff dominates the backgroun...
Print

Gridiron Club Sixty-Fifth Birthday Menu

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s...
Postcard

Postcard Back

Date: 11 16 1908
Description: Handwritten on correspondence side of postcard: "Dear Manda, Talk about Fairchild. This burg is about ten times as bad. There is not one respectable lookin...
Manuscript

Letter to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis, Front Page

Date: 06 19 1775
Description: The front page of a letter written to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis. From Preston and Virginia Papers [Calendar series Volume 1]: "Letter t...
Manuscript

Letter to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis, Front Page

Date: 08 11 1781
Description: The front page of a letter written by Thomas Lewis to William Preston. From Preston and Virginia Papers [Calendar series Volume 1]: "Rockingham. Let...
Manuscript

Letter to Col. William Preston from Thomas Lewis, Back Page

Date: 08 1781
Description: The second page of a letter written by Thomas Lewis to Col. William Preston. From Preston and Virginia Papers [Calendar series Volume 1]: "Rockingha...
Manuscript

Boone Family Genealogical Pedigree

Date: 
Description: Handwritten letter of genealogical information about the Boone family.
Drawing

Drawing on a Letter to William Proxmire

Date: 03 06 1962
Description: A pencil drawing of a man holding his hands over his ears, standing next to his bed as though he's just leapt out of it. His expression is similar to that ...
Photograph

August Krueger Sitting at a Writing Table

Date: 1910
Description: August Krueger is sitting at a writing table writing on a note pad. A bottle of ink is sitting open on the table.
Manuscript

Thomas Jefferson Letter, Front Page

Date: 08 07 1814
Description: The first page of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor.
Manuscript

Thomas Jefferson Letter, Back of Front Page

Date: 08 07 1814
Description: The back side of the first page of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor.
Manuscript

Thomas Jefferson Letter, Second Page

Date: 08 07 1814
Description: The second page of a two page letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor.
Manuscript

Thomas Jefferson Letter, Address Cover

Date: 08 07 1814
Description: The address cover page of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to Lancelot Minor.
Manuscript

Letter: Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn

Date: 08 20 1824
Description: The front page of a letter writen by President Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn.
Manuscript

Letter to Mom

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: The first page of a letter home to her mother from Signe Skott Cooper on United States Armed Forces stationery.
Book or Pamphlet

Essay Page: The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Date: 12 14 1893
Description: The first page of an essay entitled: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."
Map or Atlas

Town of St. Lawrence, [Wis.]

Date: 11 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Survey of Section Thirty-four, : in Township No. 3 North and Range No. 3 west of the 4th Principal Meridian, Grant County, Wisconsin, Into In and Out Lots ... Being a Part of Potosi

Date: 06 1845
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and shows the numbers, dimensions, and acreages of lots, as well as survey monuments and streets. Also included is a certi...

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