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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 
Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry, surrounded by illustrated scenes.
Print

Scenes of Camp and Army Life

Date: 
Description: "Scenes of Camp and Army Life." Idyllic lithograph view of nine scenes of Union Army life.
Photograph

The Soldier's Home, the Vision

Date: 1862
Description: "The Soldier's Home, the Vision," a Currier and Ives lithograph, handcolored.
Poster

Battle of Mission Ridge Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the Civil War battle of Mission Ridge. Features an inset with a small ...
Poster

"Battle of Atlanta" Advertising Poster

Date: 1888
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the poster features insets ...
Poster

Governor Heil's MacArthur Week Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b...
Print

"The Red Package" Cover

Date: 1947
Description: Anti-communist brochure, copyright by Harry T. Everingham, Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. The text asks "Why not try Communism?" and replies "The answer is y...
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...
Photograph

SDS March Againt Racist Unemployment Poster

Date: 1971
Description: Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C...
Manuscript

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...
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

"Homecoming for the G.I.s"

Date: 10 28 1970
Description: Poster advertising a weekend-long rally held October 30-November 1, 1970 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. An illustrated soldier rests with h...
Poster

"The War is Over"

Date: 03 23 1971
Description: Poster advocating individuals to "vote yes for peace on April 6." The poster reads, "The war is over for 55,000 G.I.s and a million Vietnamese, it's all ov...
Poster

Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
Poster

Help Him Get Well - Buy Bonds

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features a bleeding soldier being carried off a battlefield on a stretcher by four other soldiers.
Poster

Get into the Fight! - Help Harvest War Crops

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 1, "Harvest War Crops." The poster features a solder raising his gun to fire.
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: Pittsburgh in the Beginning

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Railroad through artist N.C. Wyeth's depiction of the establishment of Fort...

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