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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Workers working on the construction of the drafting studio at the Taliesin Fellowship Complex used by the Taliesin Fellowship. The Romeo and Juliet windmil... |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph taken on Maryland Avenue of Bloch in his father's wheelchair, being pushed by Henry Kuttner (agent), during a visit from Los Angeles. B... |
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| Description: | Photograph celebrating Henry Kuttner's visit to Milwaukee. He had driven an old Plymouth all the way from Los Angeles. Cut line was: On arrival, he immedia... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
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| Description: | Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers in a field stripping barley grains from the stalks. The workers are all wearing blue clothing, and some are wearing wide-brimmed hats. The bundles ... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of motorized fire trucks, horse-drawn fire trucks, automobiles and water wagons gathered on East Washington Avenue. All the vehicles are acco... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol... |
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