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Visual Materials Subject Overview

Learn about the wide range of visual materials subjects available to view both online and in our Archives
Historical Essay

Images of the Underground - Image Gallery Essay

Underground Newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s
Images of the Wisconsin Historical Society's collection of underground newspapers.
Historical Essay

Madison People's Poster and Propaganda Collection - Image Gallery Essay

This image gallery depicts Madison, Wisconsin, as a hub of dynamic social, political and cultrual change from the 1960s through the mid-1970s.
Historical Essay

Remembering McCarthy - Image Gallery Essay

A Visual Biography, 1908-1957
Learn about the four years Senator Joseph McCarthy held the nation in his grasp with his anti-Communist rhetoric.
Historical Essay

Political Maverick William Proxmire - Image Gallery Essay

View this image collection of the Wisconsin Democratic Senator William Proxmire.
Historical Essay

Up in Smoke: The Story of the 1904 Wisconsin State Capitol Fire - Image Gallery Essay

Learn more about the 1904 fire that destroyed the third Wisconsin State Capitol.
Historical Essay

Documenting Political Campaigns in the Moment - Image Gallery Essay

Candidates on the Road
Documenting Political Campaigns in the Moment - Image Gallery Essay
Historical Essay

A Summer Place - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs from the Apostle Islands
Learn about the history of the Apostle Islands in the northnmost part of Wisconsin, a popular summer refuge for tourists and residents.
Historical Essay

Documenting the Struggle for Farmworker Justice - Image Gallery Essay

Photographer David Giffey Captures Details of Migrant Worker Life
Learn about migrant worker life in Wisconsin and Texas captured by Wisconsin-born photojournalist David Giffey.
Historical Essay

Commemorating 50 Years of Integration - Image Gallery Essay

Images relating to Daisy Bates, former Arkansas NAACP President
View photographs from the collection of Daisy Bates, an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer.
Historical Essay

Political Campaigns of the Past - Image Gallery Essay

1850-2009
Photographs of political campaign techniques of the past.
Historical Essay

Documenting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - Image Gallery Essay

View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation.
Historical Essay

Edmund Eisenscher's Milwaukee Union Photographs - Image Gallery Essay

View Edmund Eisenscher's photographs of the personal and work life of Milwaukee union members from 1938-1956
Historical Essay

Letterheads - Image Gallery Essay

Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975
Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding.
Historical Essay

One Family's Love Affair with Photography - Image Gallery Essay

A Wisconsin family's photography of their life, pets, parades and other festivities from the late 19th through the early 20th century.
Historical Essay

Portraits of Scientists - Image Gallery Essay

Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visite Collection
View this magnificent collection of 19th century famous scientists collected by Wisconsin naturalist Increase Lapham.
Historical Essay

Carrie Chapman Catt - Image Gallery Essay

Carrie Chapman Catt: A Life of Service
View Carrie Chapman Catt's glass lantern slides from her travels as an activist for women's rights and world peace.
Historical Essay

Joy Camps - Image Gallery Essay

Wisconsin's Camp Craft Camp for Girls, 1930-1955
This gallery shares more than 100 images from a northern Wisconsin summer camp for girls that operated between 1930 and 1955.

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