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Book or Pamphlet

1947 Racine Belles Year Book Cover

Date: 1947
Description: Front cover of the 1947 Racine Belles baseball team year book featuring a drawing of a woman in catcher's gear.
Book or Pamphlet

Kenosha Comets 1947 Program Cover

Date: 1947
Description: Front cover of a program for the Kenosha Comets 1947 baseball season. The cover features a photograph of Lake Front Stadium where the Comets played.
Book or Pamphlet

1949 Racine Belles Year Book Cover

Date: 1949
Description: Front cover of the 1949 Racine Belles baseball team year book featuring a drawing of a woman leaping to make a catch.
Book or Pamphlet

Yumbo Brochure

Date: 1972
Description: Inside of a brochure advertising Yumbo equipment. There an illustration of an excavator with a pop-up depicting the shovel. Text at top left reads: "...ave...
Postcard

Good Luck for Christmas

Date: 1907
Description: Holiday postcard that reads: "Good Luck for Christmas; Good Luck for the New Year For you and yours and Everybody you hold dear." The postcard is embellish...
Photograph

Christmas Card Images for the Edwin Stein Family

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Composite photograph of Jimmy and Laurie Stein on a rocking horse.
Poster

Anti-Communist Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Poster depicting a Communist hammer and sickle symbol piercing a dove. Distributed by Young Americans for Freedom in support of war in Vietnam.
Postcard

Greetings From Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1947
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings From Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin." A Large Letter Postcard with a blue and orange background, each letter is filled with a s...
Drawing

6 Day Bike Race - 1878

Date: 1878
Description: Illustration of a crowd watching bicyclists on penny-farthings, who are racing around a track inside a tent. Below illustration is the text "From the Priva...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Fair Brochure

Date: 1986
Description: Brochure advertising the 1986 Wisconsin State Fair with cartoon images of a cow, a wheel of cheese, Ferris Wheel, musicians, and children with pie and crea...
Book or Pamphlet

Jackson County Fair Pamphlet

Date: 1963
Description: Pamphlet advertising the 1963 Jackson County Fair, which featured performances by country music stars Porter Wagoner, Del Woods, and Bonnie Sloan.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Fair Brochure

Date: 1955
Description: Brochure advertising the 1955 Wisconsin State Fair featuring images of several fair attractions.
Book or Pamphlet

Julius Heil Re-Election Campaign Material

Date: 1940
Description: Cover of a Julius Heil reelection brochure calling the people of Wisconsin his bosses. Likely in reaction to a 1940 recall campaign aimed at Heil for stati...
Postcard

Wish You Were Here at The Northwoods Country — Wisconsin's Vacationland

Date: 
Description: The Northwoods area, numbered K9GTQ, is highlighted yellow inside an outline of the shape of the state of Wisconsin. A muskie, a robin, a bear and a deer a...
Print

Chicago Civic Opera Company Programs

Date: 1928
Description: Selection of Chicago Civic Opera Company touring programs for stops in Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; Columbus, OH, and San Antonio, TX.
Print

Chicago City Opera Company Schedules

Date: 1910
Description: Selection of weekly schedules for the Chicago City Opera Company. The front includes an illustration of the entrance to the Civic Opera House (currently th...
Photograph

Wisconsin Engraving Co. Group of Men

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street. Group portrait of seven men.
Photograph

Cast Typesetting Ornaments

Date: 05 26 1925
Description: Three cast typesetting ornaments. The one on the far right is for P&O.
Manuscript

W.S.S. and Victory Liberty Loan Pamphlet

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of a pamphlet promoting War Savings Stamps and Victory Liberty Loans.
Document

Patriotic Rally of S.G.A. Program

Date: 10 18 1917
Description: Single sheet program for a patriotic rally held by the University of Wisconsin Student Government Association called by The Women Students' War Work Counci...

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