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McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and...
Poster

Your Job Is Your Gun

Date: 1942
Description: Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin...
Poster

Your Tools Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th...
Poster

Both Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Liberation News Service

Date: 07 25 1970
Description: Cover of "Liberation News Service," an underground news bulletin, featuring a Vietnamese woman carrying a firearm on her shoulder.
Drawing

Little Rock Sheet Music

Date: 
Description: "Nine Brown Heroes and Heroines" sheet music by A.H. Hamilton, pastor of St. Paul's A.M.E. church in Pueblo, Colorado, with music by Mary Maloney. The musi...
Poster

Front National de Liberté Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Graphic poster announcing an event for the Front National de Liberté (National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam). Poster depicts a Southern Vietna...
Print

Abraham Lincoln Ticket

Date: 1864
Description: An Unconditional Union ticket printed in Indiana in 1864 in support of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The support for Lincoln's prose...
Magazine or Periodical

The First Louisiana Native Guards

Date: 02 28 1863
Description: The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally...
Poster

Anti-U.S. Military Ball

Date: 01 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising an Anti-U.S. Military Ball, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union. Features a woman with a gun slung over her sho...
Poster

The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...
Poster

Sherman's Portable Fortification and Breast Work

Date: 
Description: An article discussing a new device to protect Union infantry from the enemy while they are advancing.
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic, Samuel Harrison Post No. 91

Date: 1896
Description: Portraits of the members of the Samuel Harrison Post No. 91 of De Pere, Wisconsin from 1883-1896.
Print

The First Secessionist

Date: 1861
Description: An illustration of the Devil holding a pitchfork. The words: "THE DEVIL" are on his chest. Caption below reads: "THE FIRST SECESSIONIST." Black ink on beig...
Print

Wigfall on His Promised Descent on Washington

Date: 1860
Description: Illustration of the head of Louis Wigfall, on the body of an Indian with tomahawk in hand. The caption reads: "WIGFALL on his promised descent on Washingto...
Print

The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved

Date: 1860
Description: Miss Columbia is standing on the body of a fallen soldier. She has a sword in her right hand and is holding the Union flag in her left hand. The words: "TH...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in Wisconsin

Date: 1848
Description: Map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota showing the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wisconsin a...
Map or Atlas

North Anna, From Surveys Under the Direction of N. Michler

Date: 1867
Description: This map of the battlefield on the North Anna River at Hanover Junction illustrates the Union positions in blue and Confederate positions in red. Roads, ra...
Map or Atlas

Sketch of the Public Surveys in the State of Wisconsin and Territory of Minnesota.

Date: 1860
Description: A survey map of Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and northern Iowa, showing the status of surveys, rivers, and lakes. The map also shows the locations of...

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