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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Commercial building with road (Broad Street) in foreground. Cars are parked in the lot, with Village Hall and residences in the background. |
| Date: | 05 24 1934 |
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| Description: | The east terrace of the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Allison Davis home, also known as Edenfred, in the Highlands suburb west of Madison, 6048 S. Highlands Avenu... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Woman wearing a mink coat boarding an International Metro KB-3-M truck owned by Atlantic City Jitney Service. |
| Date: | 06 09 1935 |
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| Description: | Howard Beck house, 33 Cambridge Road, Lakeview subdivision. Close-up of front entrance and trees. |
| Date: | 03 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Steve Schmidt house under construction in Sherman Park subdivision. The house is located at 1406 Farragut Street. |
| Date: | 02 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Entrance to Westmorland subdivision on Mineral Point Road. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View down road of mass-produced residential housing with farm in background. |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Road and stone retaining wall in front of Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking toward the Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Ave... |
| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Freda Winterble property, 901 University Bay Drive, looking north toward Lake Mendota. In the distance a man is holding a white rope to show where the new ... |
| Date: | 03 1936 |
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| Description: | Grouping of houses in the Greendale suburb of Milwaukee, which are shown during the construction phase. |
| Date: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Propelled by good roads and lower property taxes, many Wisconsin towns became "commuter suburbs" to their larger neighbors during the 1950s and 1960s. Whi... |
| Date: | 10 08 1945 |
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| Description: | A large barn and outbuilding on the Quaker Oats farm, 4202 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A group of Boy Scouts, led by the Scout Leader, playing drums in a Fourth of July parade. They are walking down a street and a crowd of spectators is in th... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Children riding decorated tricycles and baby carriages in a fourth of July parade with adults lining the street behind them. |
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| Description: | View across road of car parked on the side of the road. In the background are brick buildings, including (from left to right) the Central Heating Plant, th... |
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| Description: | A man is sitting at the wheel of a long steamroller parked in a gravel lot with a brick building in the background. |
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| Description: | A man in a hat and overalls leans over a trench or ditch digger, looking down into the excavated area. Pipes, an automobile, and a building are in the back... |
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| Description: | Commercial buildings, roads, cars parked in lots, as seen from the snow-covered lawn of the Village Hall. |
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| Description: | A woman and child in front of brick commercial storefronts. Signs read, from left to right "Drugs Prescriptions," "Soda Grill Luncheonette" and "Greendale ... |
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