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Book or Pamphlet

"Fashion Suggester" Illustration

Date: 1909
Description: An illustration of two men modeling spring suits with a domed building in the background, as shown in the spring and summer issue of the "Fashion Suggester...
Book or Pamphlet

La Follette on the Firing Line

Date: 04 1907
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing an audience of 12,000 in Los Angeles. The photograph is on the cover of a pamphlet entitled "La Follette On The Firi...
Book or Pamphlet

Bremen Flyers

Date: 04 28 1928
Description: Graphic design from a souvenir publication that welcomed the three heroic pilots who crossed the Atlantic from east to west in the Bremen, a Junkers W33 ai...
Book or Pamphlet

Lawson Design

Date: 1918
Description: A design for the unbuilt "Lawson Battler," which Alfred Lawson conceived as an armored fighter plane armed with six machine guns.
Book or Pamphlet

Air Race Program

Date: 1939
Description: Back and front covers of the program for the 1939 National Air Races, with a special label acknowledging the role of Harry Bruno as publicist for the Bendi...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Floor Plan

Date: 1904
Description: The floor plan of the first floor of the third Wisconsin Capitol as published in 1904 under the title "Program issued by the Capitol Improvement Commission...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Floor Plan

Date: 1904
Description: The floor plan of the second floor of the third Wisconsin Capitol as published in 1904 under the title "Program issued by the Capitol Improvement Commissio...
Book or Pamphlet

War With Germany Pamphlet

Date: 04 04 1917
Description: Speech of Robert M. La Follette in the Senate of Wisconsin regarding the war with Germany.
Book or Pamphlet

Beverly Jefferson

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Beverly Jefferson, 1/16th African American, published in Madison Past and Present, 1852-1902, a 1902 book published by the Wisconsin State Jour...
Book or Pamphlet

Houses of Famous Madisonians

Date: 1900
Description: Composite of photographs of the houses of famous Madisonians including Attwood, Fairchild, Steensland, Fuller, Vilas, La Follette, and Spooner.
Book or Pamphlet

Oshkosh Motor Trucks

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of the Oshkosh 4-Wheel Drive Motor Truck catalog. Oshkosh Truck Corporation was founded in Oshkosh in 1917. Still headquartered in Oshkosh, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Nash Six Sport Model

Date: 1923
Description: A page from a Nash Motors Company catalog, showing a six-cylinder, four-passenger sport sedan which was available in deep maroon with a khaki-color mohair ...
Book or Pamphlet

Scenic Wisconsin Motorways

Date: 1924
Description: Front and back covers of Scenic Wisconsin Motorways, a guide to Wisconsin roads compiled by Victor F. Pettric and published by the Wisconsin Motorists Asso...
Book or Pamphlet

Call of the Open Road

Date: 1922
Description: Front and back cover of the Call of the Open Road, an annual publication of the Milwaukee Journal Tour Department based on its regular columns of mo...
Book or Pamphlet

First Unitarian Meeting House Brochure

Date: 1951
Description: Front and back cover of the dedicatory brochure issued by the First Unitarian Society of Madison, "the church of tomorrow," a Frank Lloyd Wright design. Th...
Book or Pamphlet

McCarthy for President Pamphlet

Date: 1968
Description: Front cover of a campaign literature pamphlet for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential run. Beneath the portrait of McCarthy is a quotation from an editoria...
Book or Pamphlet

00 - Angora Album Cover

Date: 1943
Description: Cover of "Angora." The cover of the album is of woven rabbit wool bore. The two Sig Runes included on the cover were the insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS)...
Book or Pamphlet

01 - Angora Album Title Page

Date: 1943
Description: Title page "Die Angora-Zuchten des SS Wirtschafts - Verwaltungshauptamtes." The Angora breeding of the Economics and Administrative Department of the SS.
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03 - Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Angora rabbit.
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02 - Map of Concentration Camps in Germany

Date: 1943
Description: Map of Concentration Camps in Germany, titled "1943 31 Zuchtstationen," where the SS kept angora rabbits for their wool raising projects at concentration c...

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