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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
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| Description: | Two children posing in a parlor, probably Dudley and Marguerite Osborn inside the Spaulding House. |
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| Description: | A nun is seated in a rocking chair. Note on photograph reads, "This is what I aspire to be". |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | George Fortune of River Falls sitting in his new car, with his dog in the back seat. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Otto Lindner home with Mrs Thiel (wife of Lawrence University professor) and Grace Lindner. Both women are using fur hand muffs. |
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| Description: | Three boys sitting on a wooden fence near a gate where a women and man are standing next to a baby carriage with a seated infant, in front of a frame house... |
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| Description: | Portrait of two men standing with two teams of oxen in front of a frame house and garden. |
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| Description: | A portrait of two women sitting in a horse-drawn buggy stopped in front of a wooden fence and a log house. Photographer's shawdow is in foreground. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and a woman posed sitting in the corner of a room near a desk and two book stands. The desk has a clock and many books on it. |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk woman and small child in front of a Ho-Chunk lodge. The woman and child are looking to the side. In the background are trees and shrubs. |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t... |
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| Description: | An Elderly Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in the doorway of a lodge. He has a fringed shawl wrapped around him and is wearing a head covering, necklaces, ... |
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| Description: | An elderly Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and holding a cane, and a Ho-Chunk girl standing next to her, are outside the closed doorway of a Ho-Chunk lodge i... |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Vernie Swenson, 4 1/2, on the left, and her brother, Juddy, are shown in the exotic costumes they wore at the Memorial Day parade and celebration sponsored... |
| Date: | 01 09 1952 |
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| Description: | Living room of the William P. Robinson residence, located at 1923 North Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson are sitting before before the electric organ. |
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| Description: | Two children posing in front of a large snowman in front of a brick building. The smaller child is sitting on a ladder supported by the older boy. The snow... |
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| Description: | Put aside anything so futile All that fermented time spent and blackened, much obscured, is now restored with cheese and wine |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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| Description: | That instinct path to the waiting door is a mile of running beyond the last ounce of bursting heart |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Unidentified boy posed standing in the yard in front of a frame house, probably in Hartford. |
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