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Poster

Votes For Women

Date: 1915
Description: Political poster featuring a female angel, wrapped in a strapless gown and wings, holding a banner over her head with "1915" on it. Billowing clouds and bl...
Photograph

Interior of Catholic Church

Date: 1911
Description: View down center aisle towards the altar. Pews are on both sides of the aisle, and chandeliers hang from the center of the ceiling. There are sculptures of...
Photograph

Interior, Catholic Church

Date: 1912
Description: View down aisle between pews towards the altar in the interior of the Catholic Church. Ornate chandeliers hang from the ceiling. On the left in an arched n...
Map or Atlas

Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki...
Book or Pamphlet

Wm. Deering & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Grass cutting machinery catalog cover. Features an illustration of a flying putto holding onto a cornucopia spilling flowers into a field. Birds fly in the...
Poster

"Poslední soud" (The Last Judgment) Film Poster

Date: 1963
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the Italian-French film "Il giudizio universale." There are two rows of legs wearing high heels with bowler hats next to th...
Poster

"O slavnosti a hostech" (A Report on the Party and the Guests) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Abstract collage image of various small figures in different poses against background consisting of yellow, red, and black col...
Photograph

Price Window in the Methodist Church

Date: 
Description: Interior view of a stained-glass window with a dove and angel on the left pane and a crown and cross and a modern-age man on the right pane. Identified as...
Photograph

By the Sweet By and By

Date: 05 2014
Description: Close-up of a grand piano and old sheets of music in the historical house of the musician Joseph P. Webster. A vase of flowers is on top of the piano behin...
Drawing

"When St. Peter Sees Me Coming"

Date: 
Description: Drawing of an aged, smiling, bare-footed angel in a white robe and with a long beard and mustache, wings, and a halo above his head. He is lounging on a cl...
Postcard

Signal Flag Valentine

Date: 02 14 1910
Description: Valentine's Day postcard featuring a cherub with a pink sash. The cherub is raising a line of signal flags up a flagpole. In the upper left conrner is the ...
Print

Merry Xmas 1944

Date: 1944
Description: Military themed Christmas greeting card featuring the Statue of Liberty, a soldier with an American flag and the flag of Great Britain, and an angel in bat...
Photograph

Christmas Tree Ornament

Date: 12 15 2014
Description: Close-up view of an angel tree topper on a Christmas tree. The angel is made of a paper cut-out with the image of a young girl with curly hair, shiny gold ...
Photograph

Recording Angel

Date: 1971
Description: A bronze statue of a female angel holding a large book in her lap is in front of a marble gravestone. Gravestones are in the background on the right.
Poster

Share in the Victory

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts a winged "victory," with laurel crown, palm branch, and sword. Poster text reads: "Share in the Victory. Save for Your Country. Save for You...
Print

The War for the Union Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead featuring the seal of Wisconsin surrounded by clouds with the words: "The War for the Union" printed above it, and a banner that reads: "Wiscons...
Print

Winged Victory Letterhead

Date: 07 20 1862
Description: Letterhead with a Winged Victory, wearing a robe printed with stars, and holding a banner on a staff, which reads: "Liberty, The Union Now Henceforth & For...
Postcard

The Heart, Fond Du Lac, Wis. — Front

Date: 1907
Description: Front of folded postcard with a cherub or cupid with wings holding a sign that reads: "Fond Du Lac, Wis." inside a red heart with the words: "The Heart of"...
Photograph

Outdoor Nativity at Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 12 1954
Description: A girl is admiring the outdoor nativity displayed at the Grace Episcopal Church at 116 West Washington Avenue on Capitol Square. The display includes Mary,...
Book or Pamphlet

Children's Book

Date: 1900
Description: The front and back covers of a booklet whose title, translated from German, is Pearls. Short Stories for Children. At the bottom of the front cover ...

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