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| Date: | 07 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Front of dinner menu for the "North American" for the season. Gives rates for cruises on the "North American" or "South American" between Chicago, Illinois... |
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| Description: | Cover from songbook used on the "S.S. North American." Back cover advertises the sailings of the "North American" and "South American." Includes pic... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
| Date: | 07 31 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Baraboo with inset of Devil's Lake, the south and east sides of the commercial square, the First National Bank, and the Warren House hote... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Front cover color illustration of an advertising brochure for International B-line, R-line, V-line and CO-line fire truck chassis. |
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| Description: | Cut and pasted design for Wisconsin Promotional Bureau logo. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Cover of brochure for Old Timer's Resort (formerly Burke's Resort). |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Keep Cool with Coolidge in Wisconsin This Summer." A stamp presumably issued by the Outdoor Club of Wisconsin, to promote tourism in northern Wisconsin. I... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an armchair with his feet propped on a bed, is reading an International sales-engineering bulletin and smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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| Description: | Back fold of a Wisconsin Dells promotional brochure featuring a simplified Wisconsin highway map with directions to the Dells, and a drawing of a family dr... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover art for a pamphlet advertising The Apostle Islands and Lake Superior. The upper half of the artwork depicts a sunset view of Lake Superior, and the b... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a hooked muskellunge leaping out of the water. |
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| Description: | Promotional decal for the state of Wisconsin with a drawing of a anthropomorphised badger leaning against a sign reading: "The Badger State." |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a map of the state, with many cities marked and drawings of some Wisconsin icons: cheese, cows, deer, beer, Wisconsin Dell... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a Native American sitting cross-legged, wearing a headdress, buckskin, and moccasins, and holding a calumet p... |
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| Description: | Promotional stamp for Wisconsin tourism. Shows the outline of the state with an arrow crossing from northeast to southwest and bears the slogan "relax in W... |
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