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Map or Atlas

Michigan Transit Company map

Date: 1926
Description: Map of the routes of the screw-driven passenger/freight vessels of the Michigan Transit Company for 1926.
Print

"South American" Tuesday Luncheon Menu

Date: 1928
Description: Inside of Tuesday luncheon menu for the "South American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Boulev...
Photograph

Lee's Oshkosh Airplane

Date: 1932
Description: In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted...
Print

Wisconsin Dells Advertisement

Date: 1928
Description: "The Dells," a brochure issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Pacific Railroad to advertise the Wisconsin Dells, a destination only five hours fr...
Print

Wisconsin Dells Advertisement

Date: 1906
Description: Promotional brochure for the Wisconsin Dells (then known as Kilbourn) issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The railroad illustrated many of...
Print

Blatz Advertisment

Date: 
Description: Advertisement for Blatz Private Stock, a "de-alcoholized" beer brewed in Milwaukee during Prohibition. Depicts a couple picnicking near a lake and mountain...
Map or Atlas

Historical Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1949
Description: This color map includes historical descriptions of select areas and a short article on the history of Wisconsin. The major highways in the state shown on t...
Print

Pioneer Beer, Label

Date: 1937
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Beer, G. Weber Brewing Co." Under this in the center is a leaf with the lett...
Print

Rib Mountain, Beer Label

Date: 1938
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Rib Mountain Lager, Highest Point in Wisconsin, Brewed and Bottled by Wausau Brewing...
Print

Superfine Marathon Beer, Label

Date: 1939
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Superfine Marathon Beer, Marathon City Brewing Company." In the foreground of the im...
Print

German Style Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "German Style Beer, Peter Bub Brewery." Pictured on the label are a group of gnomes d...
Print

Blatz Old Heidelberg Castel Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Blatz, Old Heidelberg Castle, Beer, Blatz Brewing Co." Pictured on the label is a sc...
Print

Pioneer Beer, Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Lager Beer, Bottled by De Pere Brewing Corp." The label is divided into tria...
Print

Frigid Frozen Custard, Label

Date: 07 29 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Frigid Frozen Custard." Features two men, each driving a dog sled with teams of dogs...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kewaunee County Wisconsin 1876

Date: 1876
Description: Map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, post offices, and farms. Sections appear in pink, yellow, and blue. On the ...
Book or Pamphlet

John S. Davis & Sons Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Catalog cover with text: "Oscillator = Thresher". Also includes color illustration of a young girl sitting on a tree swing. Behind her, men women and child...
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front of advertising card featuring a color illustration of a man using a Gale Chilled Plow (Albion, Michigan) with a donkey in a field. Another man is wal...
Book or Pamphlet

N.C. Thompson Advertising Booklet

Date: 1880
Description: Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator."
Map or Atlas

Platteville, Wisconsin

Date: 1960
Description: This street map was likely given out by Mound City Bank and features a legend of points of interest and a street index. Streets are labeled as is the Round...
Poster

Land For Sale Poster

Date: 04 1848
Description: Poster advertising an auction for about 49,000 acres of land for sale in Wisconsin and Illinois by Thomas & Sons Auctioneers.

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