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Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
Date: | 04 1854 |
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Description: | Poster advertising an Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention at Young's Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 13th, 1854. The poster attempts to unite indivi... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Deer hunters' camp in Northern Wisconsin. Image includes six hunters and their dogs posed in front of their cabin with hanging deer carcasses. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Brewery workers, posed in front of stacked beer barrels. Pictured (2nd row, far right) is Louis Schreiber (1861-1923) who immigrated to Wisconsin from Bava... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the... |
Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of a fisherman with his lure, spear, and catch. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Hop pickers posing by stands of harvested hops. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Group portrait of workers, a young boy and a dog outside the Schmidt and Glade Brewery posing with tools and barrels. |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
Date: | 05 10 1855 |
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Description: | A poster advertising a $100 reward to be issued by Marcus Du Val for his runaway "servant" Matthew Turner. The poster includes a physical description of th... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Illustration of medicine man Jes´ akkid´ bending over an ill person, removing disease from his/her body. |
Date: | 06 24 1852 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Washington, D.C. Delegation of Indians. Five Indians pose with a man in a beard and suit. From Benjamin Armstrong, "Early Life Among Th... |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | An illustration of a storm encountered by a delegation of Indians on their way to Washington, D.C. |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | The first Farmers Alliance — also known as the Southern Alliance — is shown in front of the cabin in which their first formal meeting was held in 1877 in P... |
Date: | 02 1892 |
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Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
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