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| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people, horses, and wagons gathered in the center of Fountain City to celebrate McCormick Day. Scherer's Hotel is at left. The event was o... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Right side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot with houses and electrical towers in the background. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Composite of views of Muscoda including: Electric Light plant, Smalley House, St. John Catholic Church, Lover's Lane, Muscoda Public School, Wisconsin Aven... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of crowd watching a parade. Elevated view taken from the Van Schaick studio; the same building housed the telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 05 20 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of miners on horseback crossing a bridge into Fairbanks, Alaska, May 20th, 1905. Houses are on the other side of the river. Captio... |
| Date: | 07 04 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards a large crowd watching canoe races on the Fourth of July. Storefronts line the street behind the crowd. Business signs r... |
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| Description: | A group of boys gathered around a telephone pole on a street corner, captioned: "Inquisitiveness: Getting an Electric Shock." A boy on the left has some ki... |
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| Description: | Horses are led down Main Street past buildings, horse-drawn vehicles, and spectators during the Horse Show Parade. |
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| Description: | Fishermen show off their catch on Ocean Avenue in Manasquan Beach. Several dwellings and buildings, a road, automobiles, power lines, and a flag pole are ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of Hotel Hutchinson, situated at the corner of two streets. The entrance stands beneath a bell tower and a group of boys, some with bicycles, stands n... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton poses with his sled as his father, William, works with an iceboat behind him on frozen Lake Monona. There are other iceboats and boathouse... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A parade float elaborately decorated with flowers and pulled by four robed horses is traveling west along East Doty Street, with the Central (Fess) Hotel i... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view east along the north shore of Lake Monona, with Madison's east side industrial area in the background. Tall utility poles and railroad tracks follow... |
| Date: | 07 28 1901 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, facing east, during Pawnee Bill's Circus Wild West Parade. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view looking down at a powerhouse, with town buildings in the background and men fishing along the shoreline. Identified as the third powerhouse bu... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "North Eighth Street, Sheboygan, Wis." There is also a Verifine Food Products logo with the text: "Equal to Any-Better than Many" in t... |
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