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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nina Sturgis Dousman, wife of H. Louis Dousman, standing behind a chair. Born April 20, 1852; died July 25, 1930. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, standing near a chair. The wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died ... |
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| Description: | A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ... |
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| Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the members of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and their families standing for a portrait at Mount Vernon. |
| Date: | 06 07 1880 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Sybil P. Hanks, her two sisters, DeWitt Ramsey, and another man. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Erich Renner, breeder for International Guiding Eyes putting seeing eye guide dogs through their paces. A blind woman works with one dog while three German... |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| 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 1925 |
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| Description: | Three employees of the Publicity Division of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department: Mr. Cooley, Mr. Remley and Miss McNulty. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Rear view of men and women sitting in wooden chairs viewing a lantern slide projection of a cow during a presentation by a lecturer from International Harv... |
| Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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| Description: | Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two young women talking in a bedroom. One is packing or unpacking clothes into a travel bag. A copy of Herbert Quick's "Vandemark's Folly" is among the boo... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | 1913 Sears Roebuck catalog page of woman with "Wizard" washing machine. |
| Date: | 12 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Longfellow School children on stage perform a scene from the folk play "The Hare and the Hedgehog." Longfellow School is located in the Greenbush neighborh... |
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