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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett with camera near Steamboat Rock. There is a man on shore reading, and a woman in a canoe at the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A company photographer sets up his camera on top of a car to take a photograph in a field. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct on the line along the Milwaukee River. The viaduct has two arched passages, and stones and rocks lining the path f... |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
| Date: | 04 1974 |
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| Description: | Supporters of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper, visiting the birthplace of Mao Tse Tung. |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Mr. Trimpey creates a self-portrait while photographing the window of his antique shop at 128 Fourth Avenue. The window display features dolls from the col... |
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| Description: | Henry Hamilton Bennett stands with his camera on a platform. He built the platform in order to take photographs of passengers in the boats that toured the ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry G. Holden demonstrates the benefits of growing alfalfa to a group of men, women, and children standing in a crossroads in a commercial area... |
| Date: | 10 01 2008 |
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| Description: | Press Secretary Robert Gibbs posing outside the Barack Obama rally. An American flag is in the background. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | The operators of the mobile unit of WMVS-TV, a community station out of Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools, film an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Two men set up a photography shot of an International Metro Mite truck in a studio at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man lifts the focusing cloth from the screen of a view camera while preparing to photograph an International Metro Mite truck inside a studio at Internat... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A photographer makes an adjustment to the settings of a view camera in the studio of International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm while preparing to photog... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A candid portrait of Paul Vanderbilt in the field with his large format camera set up. He is standing next to a State Historical Society of Wisconsin vehic... |
| Date: | 09 02 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men are on top of a barn at an orchard, taking a panoramic photograph of an orchard. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | "The Twin Towers of Lower Manhattan stand majestic as a tour boat goes by." |
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