Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Jefferson's Transfer Line, owned by Beverly Jefferson. Beverly Frederick Jefferson was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson, being ... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | George Walker, Adah Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | African American workers unloading bales of cotton inside a warehouse building. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Dining hall at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 1902. The staff of the d... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Men and women at work in the office of an International Harvester branch house(?). Advertising posters for Columbus wagons, Bluebell cream separators and I... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified.... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Lucian (or Lucien) H. Palmer from the 1907 composite image of the Wisconsin Assembly. In 1906, Palmer (a Republican) was the... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Portrait of Beverly Jefferson, 1/16th African American, published in Madison Past and Present, 1852-1902, a 1902 book published by the Wisconsin State Jour... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American child (probably a girl) wearing a white dress. Text written on the back of the photog... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School. |
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... |
Date: | 05 1902 |
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Description: | Small group of people, including Alex Krueger, Mrs. E.S. Goetsch, Barnie Goetsch, and Dorothy Goetsch at a fishing hole in Shelby Co. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, wearing beaded necklaces and long earrings, and wrapped in shawls. Carrie Elk (ENooKah... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Long tables and chairs in a dining hall, probably at the McCormick Works. The tables are covered in table cloths and several cooks stand in the background.... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Three men harvesting grain. One man is operating a grain binder, another man is standing near him, and a third man is sitting on one of the mules. In the b... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Street lined with storefronts, horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Electric power lines hang over the street. On the right an African American girl and a Ca... |
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