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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Downtown Milwaukee Interstates

Date: 03 09 1965
Description: Aerial view and illustration of projected projects, including interstates and interchanges in downtown Milwaukee, for the 1970's.
Print

Schlitz Beer Label

Date: 
Description: Label, cut in the shape of a parallelogram, for a bottle of Schlitz beer bearing the Schlitz insignia and the slogan: "The beer that made Milwaukee famous....
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Avatar

Date: 08 04 1967
Description: Cover of "The Avatar," an underground newspaper, featuring a charcoal drawing of a woman, facing away, with a pack over her shoulder and a white and red fl...
Magazine or Periodical

Capt. Ronald Reagan

Date: 04 19 1942
Description: Magazine clipping featuring Ronald Reagan in his army uniform prior to reporting for active duty in 1942.
Magazine or Periodical

Ronald Reagan as host of G.E. True Theatre

Date: 
Description: Magazine clipping featuring Ronald Reagan as the host of G.E. True Theatre.
Book or Pamphlet

The Fabulous Green Bay Packers

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of a Milwaukee Journal publication commemorating the Green Bay Packers 1967 championship season. The cover features a drawing by Gregg Klees o...
Print

John Emerson — Anita Loos: Productions for Paramount

Date: 1918
Description: Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ...
Poster

Poster for "Rip Van Winkle"

Date: 1905
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ...
Print

"Black Like Me" Lobby Card

Date: 1964
Description: Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton).
Print

Cary Grant Paper Doll, Left Side

Date: 05 1941
Description: Color offset printed left hand page of a two page Cary Grant paper doll published in "Screen Life" probably in May 1941. The dolls were designed by Jacques...
Print

Cary Grant Paper Doll, Right Side

Date: 05 1941
Description: Color offset printed right hand page of a two page Cary Grant paper doll published in "Screen Life" probably in May 1941. The dolls were designed by Jacque...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Welcome Mr. Kennedy

Date: 12 22 1963
Description: An advertisement placed in "The Dallas Morning News" on the morning of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The ad attacked Kennedy's foreign an...
Print

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 11 1947
Description: Program for the New York City Symphony performance of The Cradle Will Rock. Leonard Bernstein was the musical director and Howard Da Silva starred in and s...
Print

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 
Description: Flyer advertising the upcoming performance of The Cradle Will Rock at Maxine Elliott's Theatre. The flyer was done by The Federal Theatre program and iden...
Print

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 
Description: Front page of the program for the performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Venice Theatre.
Poster

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 
Description: Flyer advertising the special performance of The Cradle Will Rock by The Mercury Theatre.
Book or Pamphlet

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 1938
Description: Page five of the playbill for performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. The page credits Blitzstein, Orson Welles, and three of the cast...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 1938
Description: Page eleven of the playbill for the performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. Page eleven includes more of the cast list and an advertis...
Print

J'Aime Jack

Date: 1960
Description: A french bumper sticker with John F. Kennedy's face inside a circle in the middle. On the left, white letters on a red background, "J'AIME" and on the righ...
Poster

No Chemical Weapons!

Date: 01 16 1984
Description: Russian with Cyrillic characters. Poster depicts a person with a "USA" hard hat and dollar signs on his goggles pouring a chemical into a beaker with a CS ...

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