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| Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| Date: | 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Glenn Turner is holding the United Nations flag, and his wife is carrying the flag of the state of Wisconsin. A supporter is holding the American flag. One... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Whitewater, with insets. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men with guns and dogs and wagons in front of a rural post office. Some men have assumed exaggerated poses, probably for humorous effect. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the road between the railroad and the Mescalero Agency, which is surrounded by a sixty by twenty mile section of white sands, co... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ansel Adams making a photograph from the platform mounted atop his International Travelall. He is using an 8 x 10 field camera and an assi... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ansel Adams atop a camera platform on his International Travelall inserts an 8 x 10 film holder into his camera. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 12 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a wagon next to an International Harvester engine while other people look on. There is a water tower in the background on the right. |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl are sitting in a wagon on a dirt road, while a man and woman are watching from the porch of a house in the background. The wagon is lo... |
| Date: | 04 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. A large group of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are marching, each with an American flag. In the ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | South entrance; an open car with two people is crossing the bridge. Stone lions flank the bridge on each corner. A lighthouse is in the background. Caption... |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | L.C. Welsh Plumbing float entitled "Evolution of the Chamber Pot" in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
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