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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across field of mill and store at Black Hawk. There are feed sacks on the porch of the mill, and a horse is on the far right. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the crowds in the Wisconsin Industry Building and the building's unusual art deco decoration. Few photographs depict African Americans at ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting with the Fred H. Kessenich Co. (dealer in cutting tools and abrasives) booth at the East Side Business Men's Festival. |
| Date: | 01 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Loretta Nelson, a commercial student, practicing on a bookkeeping machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign reads that a business has "Moved to 132 Greenwich St. (one block south)." Along with the written description, there is a small map to show where the... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a handmade sign reading: "Baehm Paper Co. moved to 53 Murray St. Four blocks north, 212 CO-7 1893." Someone has added a graffiti swastika on th... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Edwards sits at a desk while her husband, H.L. Edwards, stands beside her. The couple were operators of Edwards Truck Line and owned six Internatio... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph; view of store and adjoining buildings, Wisconsin and Milwaukee Streets. A large statue of a bird sits atop the store in the right of the imag... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Interior view with dome visible. A long counter takes up the lower right of the image, and at the left is a white barrier wall, next to a decorated column.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | West from Third Street. Advertising signs for Schlitz, People's Credit Clothing Co., Peoples Dentist, and other businesses line the buildings along the roa... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from the top of a building. Home of Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee. Building is in the center of the image, with two ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four-level building with shorter buildings flanking it on either side. On the road in front two carriages are visible, drawn by horses. A group of men ar... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Awnings stretch over the entrance and windows on the front facade. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Louis Heindel (left), Madison Business Association president, presented plaques to Edwin J. Connor, Emery Oliver, and Louis Hirsig in recognition of outsta... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Journal Building located at 734 North 4th Street. To the right of the building in an alley are circulation trucks. Newsboys and customers are... |
| Date: | 08 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the West Side Business Men's Association shown as they met for the first time at the future site of their new clubhouse and community center on ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the West Side Business Men's Association at the site of their future clubhouse on Odana Road. |
| Date: | 10 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves manager Fred Haney holding his new contract. Under his management In 1957, with a lineup that included future Baseball Hall... |
| Date: | 09 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin shown wearing a large Spanish hat as the auctioneer at the West Side Business Men's Association auction to benefit the building... |
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