Date: | 06 1837 |
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Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
Date: | 08 15 1981 |
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Description: | Michael Persten standing behind the prescription counter of The Medicine Shop, a pharmacy he opened in Wauwatosa. |
Date: | 03 27 1989 |
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Description: | Father on a bicycle towing son on a scooter. |
Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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Description: | Male students run data cards through a computer to match couples for a school dance. |
Date: | 06 17 1987 |
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Description: | Kids smiling gleefully on the Tilt-a-Whirl carnival ride while workers manage the controls in the background on a sunny summer day. |
Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
Date: | 08 1864 |
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Description: | Soldiers relax around the Army Post Office at the quarters of the Chief Ambulance Officer, Ninth Army Corps. |
Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
Date: | 10 12 1984 |
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Description: | Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd. |
Date: | 03 17 1987 |
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Description: | Fire fighters use a board game to simulate conditions at a fire scene as part of their training. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | The first electric street railway in Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side. |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | View across unpaved road towards Randall Wilcox's home, with a fence along the sidewalk. A group of people are standing on the front porch. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Pauline pottery building. Standing in front are the potters who work there. |
Date: | |
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Description: | The headquarters camp and officers of the 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in Tennessee. The officer seated on the far right is thought to be Cassius Fair... |
Date: | 04 24 1862 |
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Description: | Watercolor view of Manhattan, Kansas, from the bluff westward. The watercolor portrays the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers on their way to Fort Riley, on April ... |
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