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Pablo the Magician

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Octopus

Date: 1969
Description: Cover of "Octopus," an underground newspaper, featuring five bearded men being restrained by octopus tentacles, reminiscent of the Roman statue of the Laoc...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Dallas News

Date: 07 1971
Description: Cover of "Dallas News," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Groucho Marx and a woman, with the headline, "Groucho calls for Nixon's Assassi...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Print

Ellis B. Usher

Date: 1914
Description: Engraved portrait of Ellis B. Usher, editor and prominent Wisconsin Democrat, from the frontispiece of his multi-volume history of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Portrait of Man Reading Newspaper

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Description: A man sits for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop, smoking a corn-cob pipe and reading a Chicago newspaper. He is wearing a hat, suit jacket,...
Photograph

Charles F. Rausen

Date: 09 18 1914
Description: Quarter-length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Charles F. Rausen, Milwaukee merchant.
Photograph

Radical Editor

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h...
Drawing

1880 Iron Brigade Reunion

Date: 1880
Description: A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe...
Photograph

Portrait of William Tennant

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Description: Studio portrait of William Tennant standing and wearing a suit and hat in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River...
Print

"Wisconsin Demokrat" Memohead

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Description: Memohead of a newspaper originally published in Stockbridge as the "Union," but known as the "Wisconsin Demokrat" after its editor moved production to Chil...
Photograph

Film Still from "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of two men standing outdoors looking at a newspaper. A horse is tethered behind them.
Print

The Presidential Candidates

Date: 1856
Description: Engravings of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican and Know Nothing parties for the Tuesday, November 4th, 185...
Photograph

Editorial Staff of the Milwaukee Journal

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Description: Two men sitting at desks in the editorial room of the Milwaukee Journal. The room was decorated by a newspaper staff artist. At left, the balcony sc...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American man with a moustache holding a rolled-up newspaper in his ...
Drawing

Campaign Promises

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Description: Drawing of a thin, naked man standing in a cold wind with his hand over his mouth. Around his waist is a newspaper, with the headline: "Campaign Promises."...

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