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Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Soldiers in formation at Camp Randall during winter. The season [there appears to be snow on the ground] and the tents indicate that this image was made in... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
Date: | 01 20 1939 |
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Description: | Men loading cases of paint into tractor-truck at Mautz Paint Co., 939 E. Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 12 27 1935 |
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Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards four men constructing the W.I.B.A. radio transmission tower. |
Date: | 12 27 1934 |
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Description: | Manor Dairy truck and uniformed driver with milk in front of the dairy office in Kennedy Manor apartment building, 1 Langdon Street. |
Date: | 12 31 1934 |
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Description: | Portrait of George Smith, hermit, rescued from squalid shack in Cottage Grove, and taken to Dane County home in Verona. |
Date: | 12 10 1934 |
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Description: | Two men and Home Insulation of Madison, Inc. truck in front of W.J. Sheppard, 2524 Chamberlain Avenue, house, shown installing Johns Manville rock-wool ins... |
Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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Description: | Madison Fire Department's new gray $16,200 aerial fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street. Roy Hurling is drivin... |
Date: | 12 13 1933 |
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Description: | Meyers Tire & Accessory Co., 215 East Washington Avenue, with a shipment of new Federal truck tires piled on the sidewalk in the front of the building. Sno... |
Date: | 06 26 1933 |
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Description: | U.S. weather observer, Oscar E. Olson, sitting at his desk, looking at a thermometer and wiping the sweat from the back of his neck on a hot summer day. |
Date: | 05 19 1933 |
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Description: | View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water. |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created. |
Date: | 06 16 1931 |
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Description: | Albert Lorenz, assistant U.S. meteorologist, is reading a wind velocity instrument in the laboratory at North Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
Date: | 07 16 1931 |
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Description: | Potentiometer Thermometer being read by Albert Lorenz, assistant meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau, North Hall, University of Wisconsin. |
Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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Description: | Disabled children in Hillington bus going to a free show at the Capitol Theatre. The bus driver and another man are standing beside the bus. |
Date: | 01 13 1929 |
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Description: | Flames light up the night as fire fighters hose down the Jeffery Brothers Automobile Preparing and Storage building at 621 University Avenue in an attempt ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The view of Bascom Hill and upper campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison seen from the roof of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
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