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Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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Description: | People riding decorated bicycles in a 4th of July parade. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
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Description: | Elevated view from railing of immigrants boarding a ferry to depart Ellis Island. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
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Description: | A boy on a Milwaukee street is driving a goat cart with an advertisement for Silverstone the tailor. Several on-lookers are watching from the left hand sid... |
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Description: | A man in an elk-drawn sleigh is posing in front of the ice castle "Borealis" at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. Several people are looking on. |
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Description: | St. Paul Ice Carnival; Elk pulling sleigh outside palace. There is a crowd posing and looking at the camera. A sign on the palace reads: "Borealis." |
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Description: | Kilbourn railroad station looking north. A crowd of people are standing on the platform. Carriages are parked behind the station building. |
Date: | 12 26 1982 |
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Description: | A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts. |
Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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Description: | View from behind fence of large crowd of people getting off railroad cars. Men, women and children are standing on or near a dirt road near a railroad cros... |
Date: | 02 23 1985 |
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Description: | Young Ben Schreiner of Slinger waiting near the Republic Airlines ticket counter at General Mitchell International Airport for a vacation flight to Florida... |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Farmall H and M tractors driven in a parade through a downtown street. The tractors are driven by two women and two men. One of the men has a small child o... |
Date: | 09 03 1932 |
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Description: | Line of customers out the door at re-opened Security State Bank at Schenk's Corners, 1965 Atwood Avenue. |
Date: | 07 22 1932 |
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Description: | Group portrait of children from the South Side Franklin playground dressed as Indians surrounding a small tipi (teepee) prior to the Lantern Parade. |
Date: | 04 09 1932 |
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Description: | Dr. Clarence W. "Doc" Spears, the new University of Wisconsin football coach, with his wife and their three children being greeted by a crowd. |
Date: | 11 21 1931 |
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Description: | A group of children and adults observe the awarding of bicycles as prizes in the Madison Label Saving contest. |
Date: | 08 15 1930 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a man in uniform leading a small parade of children who are holding a sign advertising the movie: "Don't miss the year's greatest laugh hi... |
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