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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William, Sarah (probably Amelia), and Ollie Greene, three children of Thomas and Harriet Greene. The Greenes were settlers in the Pleasant Ridg... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Benjamin Butts wearing bow tie and suit. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Isaac Sheppard, a former slave, posing with his daughters Ella, Eliza, and Emily. |
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| Description: | Five African American men with instruments inside a shed or barn: an upside down gutbucket with USA painted on the side, 2 violins, a guitar, and a stand-u... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly. Clerks and employees: 1. T.B. Reid, Sgt-at-Arms 2. W.A. Nowell, Chief Clerk 3. M. Knig... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ... |
| Date: | 11 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. |
| Date: | 08 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley, in the lobby of the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, with a group from the Boys Club holding campaign signs. They presented him with... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers and casting molds at the Chattanooga Plow Works. The factory was originally operated by the Chattanooga Plow Company. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Three factory workers at the Chattanooga Plow Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in a foundry at the Chattanooga Plow Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers around a blast furnace in a foundry at the Chattanooga Plow Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables. |
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| Description: | Youth dancing at the Highlander Folk School as part of the Summer Youth Project program. Wendy Davis is in the lower left. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A factory worker is using a pulley system to move a part at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman at International Harvester's Tractor Works is looking through a filing cabinet or a card catalog. Other people are working in the background. |
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| Description: | Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured. |
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| Description: | A young girl helps her mother with laundry by wringing out a pair of shorts next to a wash basin. |
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