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Book or Pamphlet

Bascom Autograph

Date: 1885
Description: The cover of a book entitled "Hero-Worship" written by John Bascom, with his autograph to Breese Stevens in the upper righthand corner. The autograph reads...
Document

Athenaean Society Certificate

Date: 1857
Description: Membership certificate of the Athenaen Society of the University of Wisconsin presented to Charles Fairchild in 1857. The society was a student literary an...
Print

University Graduation Program

Date: 1858
Description: Commencement program of the University of Wisconsin, July 28, 1858.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ripon College

Date: 1900
Description: Newspaper clipping, copy of lithograph, of how Ripon College looked in about 1900. Indicates West College, Middle College, East College and Congregational ...
Photograph

Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o...
Photograph

Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Ramparts Magazine Cover

Date: 04 1966
Description: Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni...
Print

Milwaukee Downer College Library

Date: 02 1908
Description: Exterior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl...
Print

Wisconsin School for the Deaf Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wisconsin, with a background image of an elevated view of the school? and surrounding grounds p...
Print

Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Seal is on the left. On the right is the name of the sc...
Print

Milwaukee School of Trades

Date: 1906
Description: An exterior view of the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Exhibit Room

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of the exhibit room in the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Machinist and Tool Making Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of men working in the machinist and tool making shop at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Carpentry and Wood Working Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Students at work in the carpentry and woodworking shop at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Plumbing and Gas Fitting

Date: 1910
Description: Students learn plumbing and gas fitting at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Mechanical Drawing and Workshop Mathematics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Students are seated at desks in a mechanical drawing and workshop mathematics class at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Print

Richard Ely Portrait

Date: 
Description: A reproduction of a painted portrait of Richard T. Ely, Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Crowd on Bascom Hill at Lincoln Monument

Date: 11 26 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Even the statue of Abraham Lincoln on the University of Wisconsin campus seemed more somber 11/25 than...

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