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Commemorative Roster of Company B, 35th Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 
Description: A commemorative roster of Company B of the 35th Wisconsin Infantry, including imagery, including a soldier with women and children, an eagle and the Americ...
Poster

On The Job For Victory

Date: 1914
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of the inside of a shipping manufacturer, with men working near a ship in drydock. Text at bottom reads: "On The Job For V...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
Poster

Fighting Men Need Fighting Metal! - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience...
Poster

Coal Is "Fighting Power" - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ...
Print

Head Quarters 18th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee

Date: 1860
Description: The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t...
Print

International Trucks Alaska Highway Ad

Date: 1943
Description: Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway...
Poster

"In the King of Prussia"

Date: 1982
Description: Poster advertising the screening of Emile de Antonio's 1982 film "In the King of Prussia," in Toronto, Ontario. Poster has a white border and a black backg...
Poster

Four Years in the Fight

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i...
Poster

Teamwork Wins

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of several men working in a shipyard. In the background is an American flag. The text at the bottom reads: "United States Ship...
Poster

Make Every Minute Count for Pershing

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man riveting a ship in a shipyard. Text at bottom reads: "United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation."
Poster

Criticism

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the one on the left, an oversized man is getting ready to swing a sledgehammer, which is labeled "Misunderstanding," get...
Poster

Will You Co-operate Or Will You Obstruct?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a cartoon panel showing a man with a sledgehammer standing on a terrace labeled: "American Industries." At his feet is a piece of paper ti...
Print

The War for the Union Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead featuring the seal of Wisconsin surrounded by clouds with the words: "The War for the Union" printed above it, and a banner that reads: "Wiscons...
Poster

Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: British poster featuring an illustration of a warship under construction. Text reads: "Every Pound Invested in National War Bonds Means More Ships More Foo...
Postcard

Vi Teeples and her Eden Point, by Lake Arbutus

Date: 1986
Description: Painting of a woman standing on a beach and holding a spear point in her hand. In the sand near her is a spear, several arrowheads, and a bag. She is weari...
Photograph

Planting a Tree

Date: 
Description: Vietnam veterans ceremoniously planting a tree together.
Print

Wisconsin Coat of Arms

Date: 
Description: 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin.

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