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Poster

Appleton Grinding Mill Advertising Poster

Date: 1892
Description: Advertising poster for "The Modern Hero 2 and 4 Horse Power and Grinding Mill." Produced by the Appleton Manufacturing Company of Appleton, Wisconsin; Minn...
Map or Atlas

Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye map of Sheboygan Falls.
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Postage Stamp Design in Brown

Date: 
Description: Design in brown for Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp.
Drawing

Wisconsin Historical Society Plans

Date: 1896
Description: Unsuccessful elevations and floor plans submitted by Peabody & Stearns, of Boston, and Charles S. Frost, of Chicago, as part of the design competition for ...
Photograph

Fourth of July Industrial Parade

Date: 07 1886
Description: Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed...
Map or Atlas

U.S. Department of Agriculture Weather Map

Date: 1871
Description: Weather map depicting the great cyclonic storm that prevailed the day of the Peshtigo and Chicago fires.
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1870
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Assembly, including a name key. The portraits are numbered left to right, starting at the upper left. Additional info...
Map or Atlas

Bicycle Road Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Section 4 of 12, this bicycle road map features Wisconsin bicycle routes in the counties of Iowa, Grant, and La Fayette.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Civil War Veterans

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of Civil War veterans who compiled the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers for the Wisconsin Adjutant General's Office in the late 1880s. Back Ro...
Manuscript

Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 05 18 1886
Description: Certificate commissioning J.W. Oakley Aid-de-Camp in the Grand Army of the Republic. It is signed by Lucius Fairchild.
Photograph

"McCormick Day" in Owatonna

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on a dirt road in front of a strip of commercial buildings to celebrate the arrival of a McCormick agricultural equ...
Photograph

Gymnastics Squad of the Milwaukee Turners

Date: 06 23 1900
Description: Milwaukee Turners squad at the Federal Gymnastics Festival in Philadelphia. They are dressed in their uniforms and George Brosius is wearing a suit. They a...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1872
Description: A composite photograph of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Map or Atlas

Map for Canton Boycott

Date: 1963
Description: A map with handwritten notes and locations for Freedom Fighters participating in the Canton Boycott, for orientation during picketing. It is not a map show...
Painting

Protect Our Wild Beauty

Date: 1910
Description: Watercolor design for a conservation poster made by a Wisconsin high school student as part of a competition. The poster has an image of birch trees and fl...
Map or Atlas

Dane County Plat Map

Date: 1899
Description: A plat map of Burke, Cottage Grove, McFarland, Waunakee, Quarry Town, Klevenville, and Vilas.

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