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| 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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 05 1916 |
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| Description: | A view looking down on the Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, showing dancers around four different Maypoles. In the foreground is the Lincoln M... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man leading a circus elephant on Main Street. On the opposite side of the street is a crowd watching from behind the iron fence on the C... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Historical marker at the site of John Muir's boyhood home, located in the John Muir Memorial Park near Montello. A woman stands next to the marker, and the... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno... |
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| Description: | A crowd of young boys in an alley gathers behind a woman, possibly a suffragist, who appears to have thrown something. From the interior of the building on... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A group of spectators watching a threshing demonstration with wagons and a McCormick-Deering All-Steel Thresher. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A crowd of people stands outdoors to look at agricultural machinery on display, including a hayloader and a farm truck. |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A large crowd of women, children, and men standing on sidewalk and curb. They are probably waiting for the trolley. Many of the people are carrying package... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is crowned Madison Soap Box Derby Princess by beauty queen Jackie Stafford. Looking on at right is Lee Baron of Baron's ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Cars line up at Shell Oil service pits on E. Gorham Street during the Madison Soap Box Derby. Drivers, and a crowd of people on the sidewalk are looking on... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd on streets and sidewalks near an intersection watching a circus wagon pulled by a team of six horses in a circus parade in town. |
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| Description: | View from distance of two groups of people in a open field surrounded by trees. On the right are what appears to be European Americans, with four buggies p... |
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| Description: | View from hill across dirt road and fence of a crowd of European Americans, and possibly some Ho-Chunk spectators. Horses are pulling buggies near the fenc... |
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