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Increase A. Lapham Home

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the home of Increase A. Lapham at 321-325 Poplar Street, which was built by J.A. Messenger in 1848.
Print

Anti-Lottery Bumper Sticker

Date: 1987
Description: Anti-lottery bumper sticker reading "Don't be fooled! Lotteries increase your taxes."
Poster

Build Your Business By Advertising

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising blotter for McCormick-Deering dealers. The blotter encourages dealers to advertise their business and products to help increase sales.
Poster

Greatest Opportunity

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising blotter for McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors. The ad shows the tractor and encourages dealers to increase efforts to sell the tractors.
Photograph

Ozone Alert

Date: 1980
Description: On hot summer days, automobile emissions cause an increase in ground level ozone that can be harmful to health. In Wisconsin, the ozone problem is most acu...
Photograph

Postal Employees Demand Higher Wages

Date: 08 1919
Description: View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases.
Photograph

Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy

Date: 1934
Description: Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s...
Photograph

International 8-16 Tractor Display

Date: 1917
Description: A man drives an International 8-16 HP tractor on a city street with a sign that reads: "Kerosene Tractors with Modern Seeding Machines; Increase Food Produ...
Photograph

Saving Energy with Insulation

Date: 1979
Description: During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing...
Book or Pamphlet

Make the Garden Pay

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of a booklet published by International Harvester titled "Make the Garden Pay." Features a color illustration of a basket filled with vegetables and ...
Book or Pamphlet

The Farmer's Burden Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Interior pages of a wartime booklet produced by the Standard Detroit Tractor Company encouraging farmers to use tractors for efficiency and to increase the...
Photograph

U.W. Fraternities See Increase in Pledges

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Members are shown playing touch football on the lawn at the Theta Chi fraternity. The 32 fraternities pledged 507 new members for the fall semester, a 23% ...
Photograph

Public Service Commission Meeting

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe...
Photograph

Board of Directors of the Madison Improvement Corporation

Date: 06 04 1958
Description: Members of the board of directors of the Madison Improvement Corporation that unwrapped plans to increase the industrial potential of the Madison metropoli...
Photograph

Profits Outpaced Sales

Date: 01 06 1951
Description: A man stands in front of a poster on an easel and points to a line. The poster reads: TEXTILE SALES WENT UP IN '50 BUT PROFITS WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. Poste...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Poster produced by the Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a young man and woman walking together with books under their arms. Includes the text "Tubercu...
Photograph

Mound Marker

Date: 1930
Description: View of the panther itaglio effigy mound marker, located on Highway 106 West. The text on the marker reads: "Panther Intaglio Effigy; Panther Type, Length ...
Photograph

Mound Marker

Date: 1936
Description: View of the panther intaglio effigy mound marker, located on Highway 106 West. The text on the marker reads: "Indian Intaglio Effigy; Panther Type, Length ...
Poster

Here's a Good Plan That Succeeds

Date: 1925
Description: Dealer "mailing folder" promoting the sale of toys and the free distribution of novelties through the company's dealerships. Includes color illustrations o...
Photograph

Lake Pepin Marker

Date: 1940
Description: A marker at Lake Pepin made by the sixth grade of Whitehall Memorial School as part of their Junior Historian activities. The Junior Historians are a grade...

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