Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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Description: | Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T... |
Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
Date: | 04 1950 |
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Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
Date: | 09 1980 |
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Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Group of farmers observe and participate in a farm auction. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake. |
Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
Date: | 02 1933 |
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Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
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