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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
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| Description: | Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co... |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder car parked on a bridge. Under the bridge is a stream with a small waterfall. Two women are sta... |
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| Description: | A group of three women and three men relaxing near tents decorated with foliage and American flags. One of the men is holding a bicycle. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates a McCormick-Deering cotton picker under a tent on the Hinsdale experimental farm. |
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| Description: | Man standing in a booth promoting the Per-Ola Land Company. There are several Forest County grown grains and crops on display in the booth to show the boun... |
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| Description: | View from field of people standing near lines of glass bottles in the grass. In the background are tents, and an arbor and several individuals underneath, ... |
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| Description: | A group of Ho-Chunk men, women, and children posed standing in a field. In the background behind them is the front of an arbor with a United States flag, a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Six Ho-Chunk men lined up for a group portrait at the powwow grounds. The men with sticks in their hands are members of the Bear Clan, who act as police fo... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Syl standing on lawn with a sword in his right hand and an American flag raised in his left. Cabins are visible in the background on the right, as well as ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Earthwork four miles southwest of Racine, used during the Civil War in light artillery target practice to stop solid shot. Joseph Cooper is waving the flag... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on a rural road. A cornfield can be seen in the backg... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior photograph of schoolhouse. Original caption reads: "one room school cost $3786." The building has a stone foundation, a roof vent, and a chimney a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of children playing volleyball during recess outside of a school building. Additional children are playing on a see-saw behind them. |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | A hill in the countryside near Hong Kong, showing the fence that marked the border with Communist China. Two children are on a path on the side of the hill... |
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