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Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne & Company 20th Century Book

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a chromolithograph illustration of angels flying over a field to herald the new century. The title reads: "The Os...
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1892
Description: Cover of a Swedish advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a wizard(?) surrounded by male and femal...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Catalogue Of Stereoscopic Views: Blue Mounds Church

Date: 1876
Description: The fourth an last page of Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views made and published by Andrew L. Dahl, landscape photographer, DeForest, Wis." which...
Poster

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Poster

Date: 06 1924
Description: Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima...
Photograph

Khomeini Drive 55 Billboard

Date: 1979
Description: Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea...
Photograph

Poster Celebrating "The International Safari"

Date: 02 05 1929
Description: Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com...
Poster

University Catholic Center: Programs, 1970-71

Date: 11 24 1970
Description: Poster collage advertising events occurring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison University Catholic Center. Includes sermons, discussions and gathering...
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: 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...
Photograph

Madison Hadassah Chapter Members

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: Two members of the Madison chapter of Hadassah at the first annual donor luncheon at the Hotel Loraine. Pictured is Mrs. E.M. (Anita) Weinshel seated at th...
Photograph

Lutheran Pastors Basketball Team

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Group portrait of six Lutheran pastors from south central Wisconsin who have formed a basketball team to play Milwaukee area Lutheran pastors in a benefit ...
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

Dining Tent

Date: 
Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
Photograph

Bethel Lutheran Church School Building Campaign

Date: 03 18 1949
Description: Group portrait of seven men involved in the Bethel Lutheran Church campaign to raise $100,000 in 100 weeks for a new Sunday school building. Seated left to...
Photograph

Basket Supper At Our Lady Queen of Peace

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Six women in ethnic dress are shown standing behind decorated lunch baskets. They are at the first social event held in Our Lady Queen of Peace's new scho...
Photograph

Newman Club Banquet

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Seated at the head table of the fund raising banquet for the "Northlight," a new publication of Catholic University of Wisconsin students are, left to righ...
Photograph

Blessed Sacrament Girls Choral Group

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: Some of the girls of the Blessed Sacrament Girls Choral group prepare for a cantata to be performed to raise money to purchase the grand piano in the pictu...
Photograph

First Congregational Church Mortgage Burning

Date: 01 19 1950
Description: Christine, daughter of John E. and Doris Anderson, and church treasurer Russell Sackett participate in a mortgage burning ceremony at First Congregational ...

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