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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
Print

Clare Briggs Book Cover

Date: 1922
Description: Front cover for a book version of the popular comic strip by Clare Briggs (1875-1930), who was raised in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
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...
Photograph

Paul Bunyan Carrying Babe

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Description: Woodcut illustration of Paul Bunyan carrying his blue ox Babe, when Babe was a calf.
Photograph

Byron Kilbourn

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Byron Kilbourn.
Drawing

Colonel Ellsworth Sketch

Date: 1858
Description: Original sketch drawn by Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth in 1858 at Madison, Wisconsin, and presented to N.B. Van Slyke. Col. Ellsworth commanded the 1st Zouaves a...
Manuscript

Richland Co. Scott Guard of the Fifth Regiment

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Description: Pen-drawn poster listing the officers and men of Company H. Includes small oval portraits of some of the officers.
Photograph

Rheumatic and Neuralgic Paste Advertisement

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Description: English and German versions of an advertisement for Rheumatic and Neuralgic Paste manufactured by Smart & Sons of Dodgeville, Wis. The ads feature drawings...
Print

William Wilson, Medical Electrician Ad

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Description: Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar...
Print

Six Image Panels of Farmers

Date: 1895
Description: A cartoon comparing two farmer's experiences, one with McCormick machinery, and one with "ordinary" binders. The caption at the bottom reads: "He Laughs Be...
Print

This Reminds Me of a Little Joke

Date: 09 17 1864
Description: A political cartoon of President Abraham Lincoln holding a tiny General George McClellan in the palm of his hand. McClellan is carrying a spade. Lincoln is...
Print

Coasting

Date: 12 20 1879
Description: Engraved image of a man coasting on a high-wheel bicycle. He has his legs draped over the handlebars, and his hands on the handlebars, leaving the pedals f...
Magazine or Periodical

The Ice Velocipede

Date: 02 20 1869
Description: Engraved image of a man riding an ice velocipede, a bicycle-like vehicle with a studded front wheel and back blades. In the background is an iceboat.
Photograph

People's Poster Collector

Date: 10 23 1973
Description: J. Wesley Miller posing with some of the campus street posters and handouts he collected. Mayor Soglin, Toby Emmer, Richard Nixon, Melvin Laird and Angela ...
Print

Increase Lapham

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Increase Lapham.
Photograph

Drawing of Joseph Gillett

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Description: Photograph of a drawing of Joseph Gillett (father of Sherwin).
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Their Uncle Jere

Date: 03 28 1892
Description: Newspaper clipping cartoon drawing of Jeremiah Rusk as a towering figure standing above a small crowd of men in a field. Rusk wears a hat and vest, his sle...
Poster

"Oller Kahn mit Größenwahn" (High and Dry) Film Poster

Date: 1958
Description: German film poster for the British film, "The 'Maggie'." A big, blue anthropomorphic circle with a smiling face and white arms with clasped hands. There is...
Postcard

"Our Rest Rooms Are Clean!"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a man flushing himself down the toilet. The drawing is in black outline, with red hair and beard, and blue water drops. Lettering in bla...

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