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Poster

International "Red Baby" Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1923
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale...
Book or Pamphlet

Artesian Stock Farm

Date: 1884
Description: Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ...
Photograph

Men in Car on Dirt Road

Date: 
Description: Four men in a car with the number four on the front is driving up a dirt road surrounded by fields. Hay bales are in the field on the right.
Photograph

Aerial Photographs of Blanchardville

Date: 04 30 1949
Description: Aerial photograph of Blanchardville.
Photograph

A Mule Pulling A Toboggan

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene down a hill of a young boy or girl riding a mule which is pulling a toboggan up the snow-covered hill. Children in winter clothing run up the ...
Photograph

Valentine's Day

Date: 02 12 1978
Description: "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ...
Photograph

Zimmel Implement

Date: 1966
Description: "This view is from St. Theresa Catholic Church. Looking north toward Zimmel Implement."
Photograph

Crowd after Winning State Championship

Date: 1978
Description: "Lomira High School's girls receive a rousing reception on their return from Madison."
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: 1941 Season Trip #3 Highlights

Date: 07 22 1941
Description: Scrapbook page of trip highlights from a bike hosteling trip to Pine Bluff (Dane County), Sauk City (Sauk County), and Okee (Columbia County), sponsored by...
Photograph

Pioneer Days

Date: 09 1996
Description: "As we approach Firemen's Park, we are at the end of our ride."
Photograph

Aerial View of Louisville Works

Date: 1949
Description: Aerial view of factory buildings and grounds at International Harvester's Louisville Works. Roads, fields and trees surround the factory. In the foreground...
Photograph

Lake Kegonsa Log Cabins — Highway 51

Date: 1930
Description: View from driveway over a stream towards a row of six log cabins to the left Highway 51. A Texaco Station and a delivery truck are on the far left. Cars ar...
Photograph

Dog Driving Farm Machinery

Date: 07 1980
Description: This image is from the annual 4th of July Knowles Picnic parade.
Photograph

Women Riding Sidesaddle

Date: 
Description: Two women posing sidesaddle on two horses on a dirt path with a wooden board fence behind them. In the foreground is a colt. In the background are a field ...
Magazine or Periodical

A Sorely Neglected Stretch

Date: 05 1892
Description: Frank Lenz posed with his bicycle on a badly neglected stretch of road. A split-rail fence encloses a field behind Lenz.
Photograph

Woman on a Horse

Date: 
Description: Exterior portrait of a woman posing sitting side-saddle on a horse in a field. There are roads in the background, and a building in the distance on the rig...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Front and back cover of The Buckeye Harvesting Machinery catalog. Features on the front, at the bottom, an oval-framed scene of two men using agricultural ...
Photograph

Flora Fels Weege on Horseback

Date: 1908
Description: Flora Fels Weege sitting on top of a horse holding a rifle. She is wearing a men's suit, a hat, and a belt holding ammunition.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Linden Drive

Date: 1900
Description: View down Linden Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Original caption reads, "Linden Drive in the spring time." Trees line both side of th...
Photograph

Man on Horseback on Road

Date: 
Description: Landscape view across fields towards man riding horseback up a country road.

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