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Digital Collections
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The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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You Blow the Powder
Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose through a tube. The ad is stamped by Sherman &...
Presidential Political Campaign Stamps
Set of five anti-FDR stamps with caricatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The stamps are intact except for the one on the bottom. Each stamp has perforations, and text beneath that reads: "Nationa...
Anti-Communist Literature
1953
"It Can Happen Here," a pamphlet distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. The CACC was founded by Fred C. Schwartz in 1953, the peak of the anti-Communist hysteria created by Senator Jo...
Anti-Communist Envelope
1962
Envelope of a letter addressed to Senator William Proxmire from a constituent in Kansasville, Wisconsin, which graphically illustrates a perceived connection between Communist "one worldism" and th...
Agitation Which Delays Our War Industries is "Made In Germany"
1918
Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of two men meeting in "Plot Alley." One or both men are saying: "You're all right!" One man is wearing a suit labeled: "Agitator" and has a paper marked: "Ge...
Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You
1917
Poster featuring an image of a boy and girl standing together. The boy is wearing a sailor suit and holding an American flag. Poster text reads: "Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You — Back H...
