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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
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| Description: | Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dozens of cattle milling outside the barn at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. Several other school buildings are visible in the b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the Soldiers' Monument in front of the Waukesha Public Library, in the center of Cutler Park. A group of people are sitting on the lawn in front of... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Glenn's mineral spring. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W... |
| Date: | 08 23 1917 |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Joseph Brown, attending to an automobile on the road between Waukesha and Ionsman. Rural landscape and farm in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Fred Esser stands in a hat and sweater in front of wooden doors. Mr. Esser owned a McCormick-Deering 6 can cooler. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a two-story house with several trees on the farm of Fred Esser. On the right is a barn with two silos. On the far left in a fenced area on... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank Fox Jr. holds his father's prize bull, with a lead attached to a nose ring, in front of a wood sided silo. On the reverse of the photograph is writte... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank Smith, Jr., age 12, feeds chickens on his father's farm. The farmhouse is in the background. Young Smith was a student at the Hillcrest School, Distr... |
| Date: | 06 1911 |
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| Description: | A field party of members of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society visit an effigy mound at Big Bend. The men are dressed in suits and hats. |
| Date: | 10 16 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a linear Indian mound at Big Bend. Two men stand in the background on the left and right among the trees. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A composite lantern slide with two early views, ca. 1910, of raised corn hills on the campus of Carroll College (now Carroll University). At top is a view... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Four men posing near a large, tall stack of alfalfa. One man is sitting in an automobile. The ricks of alfalfa are on the Swartz Brothers' Cornfalfa Farm i... |
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| Description: | Bales of alfalfa in large stacks shaped like barns, with tarps tied over the top. Men are working on the far left. |
| Date: | 05 24 1952 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin School for Boys Band, under the direction of Arnold Krueger, provided the musical entertainment for the dedication ceremony of the Waukesha D... |
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