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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined State Street from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Traffic on State Street includes two well-dressed gentlemen on hors... |
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| Description: | Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery. |
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| Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn carriage stuck in a rut on a muddy road near the Ohio River in Floyd County, Indiana. One man is holding the horse while another attempts to di... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
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| Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
| 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: | Exterior view of the Bell Center depot with five men posing on the platform. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Eureka Mower Company featuring color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a mower pulled by two horses. Trees, mountains... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester's Champion line of harvesting machinery with a central illustration of a cowboy on a bucking bronco. On the... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company featuring a color illustration of a well-dressed farmer riding a binder pulled by two horse... |
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