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| Date: | 12 13 1917 |
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| Description: | A color cartoon depicting Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as pro-German, showing Kaiser pinning medals on him. |
| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ... |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 45. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of young Hank Aaron swinging a bat, surrounded by other images of him, and text. Aaron broke his ankle as a major league rookie, on Sept. 5, 1954. ... |
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| Description: | Caricature of "Cyrusie" McCormick operating a horse-drawn McCormick reaper. |
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| Description: | Caricature of Alexander Legge. Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industries Board ... |
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| Description: | Insect art work in which the artist placed cut-outs of people's faces on top of the insect heads. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | La Follette political cartoon. La Follette and presidential candidates Root, Shaw, Taft, and Fairbanks at a fish pond. |
| Date: | 07 1925 |
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| Description: | Memorial Edition of "La Follette's Magazine," page 107. The magazine later became known as the "Progressive Magazine." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Cartoon showing a man looking at the following text: "Look at the facts, in 11 days war casualties 15,883, civilian casualties 24,812." |
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| Description: | A drawing representing the first treaty between the Indians and the original 13 states. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 05 14 1887 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of a three-headed hydra representing oleomargarine, threatening a farmer. |
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| Description: | A political cartoon entitled "The Hercules of Labor saving his Country" depicting a man with a sword lopping the heads off a double-headed snake, which is ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1951 |
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| Description: | After his dismissal by President Truman, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States and was welcomed as a folk hero. The adulation heaped on... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Front cover for a book version of the popular comic strip by Clare Briggs (1875-1930), who was raised in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Cartoon portrait of Caspar Milquetoast, the Timid Soul, a character created by Harold T. Webster, who was raised in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. |
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