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Map or Atlas

Our Own Map

Date: 1928
Description: This map shows roadways, cities, rivers, and lakes. Included are portions of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Lake Michigan is on the far left side, with Lak...
Map or Atlas

Junction of Montreal River and West Branch

Date: 1928
Description: This map shows the junction between the Montreal River and the west branch of the Montreal River. The original captions on the map read: "Field Work by H.R...
Map or Atlas

Highway Map & Guide of Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: A Wisconsin state highway map, featuring the major highways, rivers, lakes, and cities. There are a few advertisements on the front and back. The back also...
Photograph

Lockheed Vega 1

Date: 1928
Description: Right side view of a Lockheed Vega 1 sitting in the snow. The tail identifier reads: "X3903." The airplane is equipped with a 220hp Wright J-5 engine. Capt...
Photograph

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen. Three of the men are posed on the pole, and another man is standing on the ground. Three automobiles are parked a...
Photograph

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1928
Description: View down center of Walworth Street with the Sprague Theater on the left. A hotel is on the lower right. Automobiles are parked all along the street. Capti...
Map or Atlas

Official Road Map Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: This map shows the entire state of Wisconsin as well as portions of Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Winnebago a...
Poster

"Madden of the Mounted" Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Poster for the film "Madden of the Mounted." Scene in a room of a man holding a chair and lunging towards a woman standing in an open doorway. Another man,...
Photograph

"The Crowd" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Production still from the 1928 film "The Crowd." Two cameramen are sitting on a wooden slide behind a small camera. People are sitting at the top of the sl...
Photograph

"Diamond Handcuffs" Production Still

Date: 1928
Description: Director John McCarthy watching as Henry Sharp films Eleanor Boardman and Lawrence Gray in a scene from the 1928 film "Diamond Handcuffs."
Photograph

Glander Style Shop

Date: 1928
Description: View of the Glander Style Shop's storefront entrance at 820 Washington Street featuring a twelve-feet-deep French window, tile floor, and heavy, ornate doo...
Photograph

Glander Art Studio & Glander Style Shop

Date: 1928
Description: View across intersection towards the Glander Art Studio and the Glander Style Shop on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washington Streets. Second-story w...
Photograph

Glander Art Studio, Gift Shop I

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view, facing west, of the Glander Art Studio's 1st floor gift shop with its checkerboard floor and bright, storefront windows. The entrance door f...
Photograph

Glander Art Studio, Gift Shop II

Date: 1928
Description: Elevated view of the interior of Glander Art Studio's gift shop, facing east. The wood framing of the entrance door from Washington Street is on the right....
Postcard

Masonic Temple, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Date: 1928
Description: Color postcard showing a two-story brick building with a sign indicating it is a Masonic temple. A streetlight is in front of the building. At the bottom o...
Postcard

Scene in Vilas Park

Date: 1928
Description: View of a walking path through Vilas Park along Lake Wingra, with flowering bushes and trees in the lawn. Caption reads: "Scene in Vilas Park, Madison, Wis...
Postcard

Madison, Wis. and the Four Lakes Region

Date: 1928
Description: Birds-eye view showing Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Waubesa and Lake Kegonsa. Shows the growth of Madison from the Isthmus along the southe...
Photograph

Tennis Court

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder is standing on a tennis court on the left, opposite her daughter, Barbara, who is wearing a shirt and slacks. Ther...
Photograph

Margaret Brumder

Date: 1928
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing sitting outdoors on a rustic lawn chair. She is wearing a broad headband, sweater, and short skirt, with ...

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