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Photograph

Tractor with Cranberry Cultivation Implement

Date: 1950
Description: Farm implement attached to the back of a tractor driven by a man in a suit and tie. The machine is transported on the back of the tractor and then unloaded...
Photograph

Grading Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: Machinery used for grading cranberries. As the berries move through the machine the are sorted by size and deposited on the appropriate conveyor belt for p...
Photograph

Cranberry Processing

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of graded cranberries moving along multiple conveyor belts to await further processing and inspection. Three men stand near the conveyor belt...
Photograph

Ramon Magsaysay

Date: 1950
Description: Ramon Magsaysay (in the wide-brimmed hat), then secretary of defense and later the President of the Philippines, during the campaign against the communist ...
Print

Advertisement for Indian Trail Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: Advertisement for a 5 lb. gift box of fresh Wisconsin Cranberries. The advertisement tag line reads "So smart to give . . . so pleasant to receive". Pictur...
Photograph

Governor's Executive Residence

Date: 1950
Description: View from yard showing the back of the Governor's Mansion. The building features a balcony, arched windows, and several chimneys.
Map or Atlas

Map and Aerial View of the Wisconsin Campus

Date: 1950
Description: Includes building index and "To Help You Locate Buildings" text. Index includes campus buildings and points of interest. Aerial view on verso.
Photograph

Aerial View of Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co.

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view showing shipyards, rivers and roads.
Map or Atlas

Village of Butler, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1950
Description: This map is revised by McMahon Engineering Company, Menasha, Wisconsin and shows plat of town, local streets, concrete monument, iron stake, government sto...
Postcard

First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight.

The marker text reads:

"FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI...

Manuscript

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1950
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a blue ribbon against a red band on the left-hand side. The state fair ribbon includes the state seal and dat...
Postcard

A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...
Postcard

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a white painted, wood frame Immanuel Lutheran Church. Sign out front. Sent Sept. 15, 1965, to thank visitors from Eau Claire for c...
Postcard

Post Office

Date: 1950
Description: Black and white postcard view from the street of the U.S. Post Office. Caption reads: "Post Office, Delafield, Wis."
Postcard

Iowa County Court House

Date: 1950
Description: View from street towards the Iowa County Court House. Built in 1857, it is the oldest operating court house in Wisconsin. Caption reads: [Iowa County] Cour...
Photograph

Holiday Home

Date: 1950
Description: View across lawn towards a car parked in front of the main building at Holiday Home Camp. The rambling wood frame building has several sets of stairs leadi...
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Construction

Date: 1950
Description: View from snowy ground of men working on the roof. In the foreground are stacks of wood on sawhorses.
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Construction

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of trusses on supports on the ground near the partially constructed Unitarian Meeting House.
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Construction

Date: 1950
Description: View from snowy ground of men working on the roof. In the foreground are stacks of wood on sawhorses.
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Construction

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of men working on trusses laid on sawhorses on the ground near the church.

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