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| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 06 22 1983 |
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| Description: | Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head. |
| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 08 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Dr. Frederick Davis residence, located at 6048 S. Highlands Avenue, also known as Edenfred. Two women are relaxing at the swimming pool. One woman is sitti... |
| Date: | 07 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Girl sitting in Arthur G. Clemens rock garden made with stones from every county in southern Wisconsin. Also includes pond, at 706 W. Lakeside Street. |
| Date: | 07 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Girl sitting in Arthur G. Clemens rock garden made with stones from every county in southern Wisconsin. Also includes pond, 706 W. Lakeside Street. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A large family group and a dog are posed around a table that has large books on it. The frame house behind them has a sway in its roof. A well with a wood ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of children and adults on a lawn along the shore. Gentleman on the right is mowing the lawn. A young boy is playing with a dog in front of two girls ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View of the Spooner residence on the south corner of Wilson and Carroll Streets, with the lake in the background. This was the home of John C., Phil H., an... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Women representing Presbyterian churches of Madison attended the garden party given at the home of Mrs. W.H. Conlin, 739 Farwell Drive, in honor of Mrs. Ho... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Jenkin and Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones stand in front their "clubhouse" on the north shore of Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 09 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Theodore Statz and her 6-month old daughter Cindy in the yard of their basement apartment at 425 West Wilson Street. They are soon to be evicted becau... |
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