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Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Statue of soldier holding a sword, seated on a horse, erected in 1905. The statue stands on an engraved plinth. Caption reads: "Kosciuszko Monument, Kosciu... |
Date: | 04 1971 |
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Description: | Poster of a masked face with part of a gun showing, in green and red. Below an Arabic inscription is the phrase: "Palestine Lives." |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | View across grounds toward the Company M Barracks, a two-story building with first and second floor porches. "Caption reads: "Company M Barracks, National ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Lake near the home, probably Lake Hincks, which was named after General Edward W. Hincks who was administrator of the Home in the 1870's. The grounds consi... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Map of home and land, with the roads, lakes, railroad, and buildings. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Front view of main building behind trees on the lawn. A fountain is in front of the entrance. A flag is on the top of the building. Caption reads: "Milwau... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Hospital Buildings. Designed in 1879 by H.C. Koch, a local architect, the hospital plans were based upon the "pavilion system" then popular in certain part... |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who settled in Wisconsin in 1855. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Schurz to the rank of general in... |
Date: | 11 1971 |
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Description: | Poster of Che Guevara based on a famous photograph from 1960 by Alberto Korda. Created by RPM printing co-op in Madison, Wisconsin, using a crosshatching t... |
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Description: | Poster depicting a young shirtless man pitching hay with text that reads: "Put your muscle on a war basis! Sign Up For A Farm Job ... at your local U.S. Em... |
Date: | 09 1971 |
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Description: | Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A damaged Republican Party ticket for the Racine County Wisconsin slate headed by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Also of note on the ticket is Congre... |
Date: | 1864 |
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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... |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Jerome A. Watrous for the American Historical Society, probably wearing his Spanish-American War uniform. |
Date: | 11 1971 |
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Description: | Poster recruiting University students to travel to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnamese Conflict. Features an image of a Vietnamese boy, repeated fi... |
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Description: | Cartoon of Jim Crow in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, with a soldier goose stepping in the foreground, and Hitler and Stalin in the background. |
Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
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