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| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of th... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon is under the heading: "Hitching the Tractor to the Implement". The cartoon depicts a... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts a man with his arm in a sling and using a crutch saying: "I tried riding the... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts a man on crutches with a broken leg, a man's head with a pained expression... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
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| Description: | Poster recruiting student nurses to aid in the war effort. Depicts a young woman, in a nurse's uniform, with her right hand raised to her heart. Behind her... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Herbert Battles Tanner who was running for Mayor of Kaukauna on the Republican ticket. Other candidates are listed below. |
| Date: | 02 08 1879 |
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| Description: | A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and n... |
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| Description: | 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 thro... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Wine of the Woods and Balsam Drops, a purported cure for dyspepsia, constipation, and headaches marketed to women and sold by John L. Moo... |
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| Description: | Cartoon postcard of a quack doctor. He wears a top hat and carries an umbrella under his arm. In his right hand he holds a bag bearing the name Dr. Killem.... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Harriet Meta's Face Dyspepsia Food which promised to make your face "round and plump" and to enlarge the bust and to make a "thin scrawny... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Newspaper advertisement for Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator for diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. A long list of diseases the tonic treated is wr... |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. William Beaumont who conducted some of his famous experiments on human digestion while posted at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien in 1830.... |
| Date: | 07 1976 |
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| Description: | Diagram showing environmental means by which humans can be exposed to radiation from nuclear power plants. |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River showing streets and numbered lots. The Ohio River, Corn Island, and the Louisville and Portland C... |
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