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Photograph

Richard Nixon and the Honey Queen

Date: 1958
Description: Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport.
Photograph

Dwight D. Eisenhower Fishing

Date: 1956
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt...
Photograph

Gypsy Rose Lee Fishing

Date: 1950
Description: Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake.
Photograph

Frank Lloyd Wright's Funeral Procession

Date: 1959
Description: Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1959
Description: View of Main Street, lined with the fire department, city clerk's office, and Pugh's Battery - Electric Shop.
Photograph

Chicago and North Western Railroad Tracks

Date: 1955
Description: Chicago and North Western Railroad (CN&W) tracks between Brearly and Ingersoll Streets.
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks "parts, service and accessories." Includes the text "let us comfort-condition your truck now!" Also includes an...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks with a color illustration of a truck driver sitting in an easy chair with his feet propped up under the text "c...
Poster

International Half Ton Pickup Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International 1/2 ton pickup trucks. Includes color illstrations of a pickup truck, International Metro, and an International L seri...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks featuring a color illustration of a truck driver talking to a young boy. An International semi-truck is parked ...
Print

International Crawler Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 02 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International crawler tractors (TracTracTors). Features a photograph of a man operating a TD-24 crawler tractor under the title: "pu...
Poster

International Crawler Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) with a color photograph showing men loading TD-14A crawler tractors on a Fairchild C-1...
Photograph

Johnson Wax Company

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Johnson Wax Company building.
Photograph

Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, crouching next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsor...
Photograph

Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, working on the steering of his Wisconsin State Journa...
Map or Atlas

Wards & Precincts

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows wards and precincts by number, local streets, roads, parks, Shorewood Hills, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Verona, McFarland, Monona, Truax Field,...

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