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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
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| Description: | The Ludington Building, built in 1881 on the southeast corner of North Plankinton Avenue and West Wells Street, featuring the Singer Sewing Machine store. |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| Date: | 08 21 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of farmers and businessmen gathered to attend International Harvester's "Diesel Demothon." In the foreground two men and a young g... |
| Date: | 02 1989 |
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| Description: | Outdoor gathering of men, women and children cooking cranberries in a large kettle, perhaps at a winter festival. |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Wilbur Seed Meal Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturer of horse, cattle, poultry, and egg food, hoof packing, and various animal re... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Murphy Products Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building and trucks, automobiles, and a train nearby, flanked on either... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the E.R. Godfrey & Sons Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a red belt with a silver buckle across the top left. Examples of the company's ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | A five year old boy is sitting on the hood of a truck eating an ice cream cone. The boy is Joel Keith Strickland, and he is wearing denim bib overalls and ... |
| Date: | 10 02 1884 |
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| Description: | Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim... |
| Date: | 09 1990 |
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| Description: | View of Rock River Street during the annual outdoor concert. |
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| Description: | Front cover, bar menu, and trifold overleaf illustration from the Fox and Hounds Restaurant. On the cover is an illustration of the restaurant's wooden pla... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Collingbourne Mills Western Thread Company, with a bird's eye view of the company complex, flanked by examples along the left-hand side of th... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of W.A. Maurer, importer and jobber of china painting supplies, including "white china for decorating, artists materials, colors, etc." On the l... |
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| Description: | Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz. |
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