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Underground Newspaper Cover: Rat Subterranean News

Date: 06 15 1968
Description: Cover of "Rat Subterranean News," an underground newspaper, featuring Hubert Humphrey dressed as a police officer wearing a gas mask and a tie around his n...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Ann Arbor Argus

Date: 08 13 1969
Description: Cover for "The Ann Arbor Argus," an underground newspaper, featuring an image of a red-clad super hero fighting a muscular bald man, with a diamond around ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The East Village Other

Date: 03 24 1970
Description: Cover of "The East Village Other," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon bomb on top of a pile of money. The headline reads, "Booming the Economy."...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Strategic Hamlet

Date: 11 11 1970
Description: Cover of "Strategic Hamlet: An Isla Vista Street Journal," an underground newspaper, featuring a woman as Justice balancing the Bank of America and a group...
Print

Land Rental Receipt

Date: 10 17 1910
Description: Receipt for the sum of $8 paid by Louis M. Hobbins to Peter Bratvold for the right to hunt on 40 acres of land in Door Creek from Oct 26, 1910 through Octo...
Poster

Badger Herald Advertisement

Date: 01 04 1971
Description: Poster advertising the price of an individual issue of The Badger Herald student newspaper on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Print

Check for J. Alder Ellis

Date: 12 30 1856
Description: A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall.
Print

Check for Fredericka Lindenthald

Date: 12 19 1853
Description: A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall.
Poster

$30 Reward

Date: 02 01 1864
Description: List of Civil War draft-dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal's office, Fifth District of Wisconsin.
Poster

Statistics of the Civil War

Date: 1892
Description: A large poster giving an overview of the cost of the Civil War in lives and money, dominated by a list of 154 major battles.
Print

Russian 500 Ruble Treasury Bill

Date: 1912
Description: Reverse side of a Russian 500 ruble bank note issued in 1912.
Print

Russian 500 Ruble Treasury Bill

Date: 1912
Description: Russian 500 ruble bank note, featuring a portrait of Emperor Peter I, the Great (1682-1725).
Print

Scott's Extinguisher

Date: 1860
Description: General Scott holds a large cone decorated with the stars and stripes. Scott is saying: "I'LL BLOCK YOUR GAME." He is about to snuff out Jefferson Davis, w...
Print

Plan a Paid-For Christmas, Join the Christmas Club

Date: 1912
Description: Die cut holiday card in the shape of a bell with a string attached at top as an advertisement for the Bank of Madison to "Join the Christmas Club" so you c...
Print

A Merry Christmas Check

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday "check." It has an ornate green and black border with the text "A Merry Christmas," "A Happy New Year" and "With the Season's Greetings" in it. A w...
Print

First Bank of Love

Date: 1945
Description: Valentine's Day card of a large heart with a "check" on top of it. At the top of the heart is the text: "A Wealth of Love," and at the bottom is: "Just Che...
Print

A Valentine Money Tree For You

Date: 1954
Description: Valentine's Day card of a tree in a pot with hearts on the branches. A sign on the upper right reads: "A Valentine MONEY TREE For You." There are ten slots...
Print

Hilbert, Wisconsin, Post Office Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Post Office in Hilbert, Wisconsin, with a center image of an eagle holding a banner, the ends of which read U.S. and Mail, in its beak, und...

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