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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph poster advertising the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
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| Description: | William Rogalsky's railroad tie mill, showing workers and logs ready to be milled. Photographer Charles J. Ruppenthal was known to have been active in Tige... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used. |
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| Description: | A view of the Soo Line Depot and railroad tracks running through the town at Armstrong Creek. A man, child, and a dog are walking on the railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand... |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered to welcome the 1st Regiment home from the Spanish-American war. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Colored print containing two images advertising the delivery of mail. The main image is of the large Michigan and Southern train labeled "The Fast Mail" de... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ... |
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| Description: | A team of eight oxen pulling a wagon filled with logs. One man is standing by the side of the oxen, while three other men wearing large hats and an African... |
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| Description: | A man in the background is standing on top of the logs that are being loaded onto a railcar. Four African American men at ground level are working to hoist... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake... |
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