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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Poster

McCormick "Back from the War" Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi...
Poster

World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1943
Description: Poster for International Harvester dealerships promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Features an illustration of a smiling sol...
Photograph

Sportsmen with International D-15-M Station Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Three sportsmen with shotguns and hunting dogs around an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody"). The photograph may have been staged for advertising ...
Book or Pamphlet

St. Paul Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of a catalog for the Saint Paul harvester and cord binder, "The Pioneer Cord Binder of the World," manufactured by the Saint Paul Harvester Works. Th...
Photograph

Felton Gun Store

Date: 04 29 1932
Description: Interior of Felton Gun Store, located at 120 E. Washington Avenue, with elk, deer, and mountain goat heads mounted on the wall among the firearms and hunti...
Photograph

Commercial National Bank

Date: 12 16 1930
Description: Commercial National Bank's "Fort Commercial" (a bulletproof armor cage), with Sgt. Ludwig Lenzer, Co. G, Wisconsin National Guard, holding a rifle.
Photograph

Felton Gun Store Booth at ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Felton Gun Store booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival." Sporting goods for sportsmen." Featuring a woodland campsite tableau...
Photograph

International Armored Truck

Date: 10 04 1926
Description: International armored bus parked outside the National City Bank of New York. Armed guards stand on either side of the truck and one is stepping out holding...
Photograph

Hunting Trip with International Travelall 1000 Pickup

Date: 1970
Description: Color advertising photograph of duck hunters displaying their kills outside an International Travelall 1000 pickup. A hunting dog is standing on the open t...
Photograph

Gun Rack

Date: 10 30 1946
Description: Horizontal gun rack located on a closet shelf taken for the R.L. Kulzick Advertising Agency, 409 East Washington Avenue.
Poster

Red Power Wisconsin Pow-Wow Poster

Date: 10 05 1970
Description: Poster for an American Indian Pow-Wow, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavillion [sic], October 10, including a coalition of nativ...
Poster

Radical Zionist Alliance Poster

Date: 02 1971
Description: Poster advertising for the Radical Zionist Alliance's Radical National Convention. Caption around picture of guerrilla reads, "Be a revolutionary in Zion, ...
Photograph

"White Lightning" Concert Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Concert poster for "White Lightning" at Snoopy's in Madison, Wisconsin, March 23-24, 1971.
Photograph

Matthias Stein Residence

Date: 1884
Description: Subheading states the center building to be the oldest house in Milwaukee, and built by Matthias Stein in January 1838. The home is only two stories tall,...
Photograph

Bulletproof International Automobile

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-30 automobile with a special bulletproof body parked outside the Esquire Theater. Two police officers are standing near the vehicle, and...
Photograph

Fund Raising Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War...
Photograph

Armed Forces Day Parade

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral ...
Poster

Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
Poster

Get into the Fight! - Help Harvest War Crops

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 1, "Harvest War Crops." The poster features a solder raising his gun to fire.

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