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Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Wilson Riddell general store, with a horse-drawn wagon parked in front. There is a post office and paint shop attached to the store. S... |
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Description: | Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home... |
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Description: | Dr. Eugene Krohn driving his medicine wagon. The man behind the wagon is either Rufus Jones or Warren C. Jones. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon coming down a cobblestone street in Milwaukee. The fact that automobiles are also in the photograph suggests that the transition to ... |
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Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ... |
Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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Description: | Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Main Street Looking South, Lone Rock, Wis." Unpaved street with sidewalks, dwellings and buildings on both sides. Horse drawn vehicle... |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
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Description: | Family posing in yard of house with four horses, with two pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There are four women, two men, a young man, five young girls, and... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Farm family posing in front of a log home. There is a man on crutches in the center, a woman is holding a small child standing on a table, and two children... |
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Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
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Description: | View down dirt road towards the Lappley Bros. Lumber Yard. There are houses on the right and in the far background. There are horses and carriages parked a... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Bell Center depot with five men posing on the platform. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | A line of Kennedy Dairy horse-drawn wagons with drivers posing beside them. For Quaker Oats Farm. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The Madison water tower and farmers' market as seen through the stone gateway at the East Washington Avenue entrance to the Capitol Park. The building on t... |
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