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Photograph

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1923
Description: Aerial view of town with river. The clipping from a newspaper has a description titled: "Seeing Wisconsin From an Airplane".
Print

Edge T. Cope & Son Reaper Advertisement

Date: 1861
Description: Advertisement for the Edge T. Cope & Son reaper, with views of the side and rear delivery.
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Stamp Design with Flowers

Date: 
Description: Design for a Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp featuring a wood violet, which is the state flower, as well as a jack-in-the-pulpit and a trillium.
Print

Wisconsin Promotional Bureau Logo

Date: 
Description: Cut and pasted design for Wisconsin Promotional Bureau logo.
Photograph

Melchoir House

Date: 1931
Description: Drawing of the Melchoir House, which was a popular hostelry and brewery operated by Jacob Melchoir. It later became an Indian boarding house.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of town. Caption reads: "No. 25. Markesan, in Green Lake county, on state trunk highway 103, is a town of homes. Its inhabitants number 1,000."
Painting

Wounded Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
Description: Oil on linen study of a wounded Union Civil War soldier partially reclining on the ground created by one of the German panorama painters active in Milwauke...
Poster

"May Day is "J" Day" Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster advertising a smoke-out in James Madison Park. Features a drawing of in blue, green and yellow, with a caption reading: "Madison, Madison. May Day i...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Illustrative art of a tire rolling above the text that reads: "Things Move Fast," collaged with a photographed tire pasted on the right, a spiral line link...

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