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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three storefronts on a dirt road. A man, said to be Charles Grimm, is driving a horse and buggy. The building in the center is Feiker's photo studio. Near ... |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a European American man with a beard and moustache sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground in front of the C.... |
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| Description: | Several men and children pose next to George Houghton's portable photograph tent. There is a wagon parked next to it which bears a sign that reads "Houghto... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a ladder while installing what appears to be a backdrop in the studio on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. Several free-standing... |
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| Description: | Jackson County Bank and the Norse Handel Grocery Store on the corner of First and Main Streets. A young boy is standing on the sidewalk in front of the gro... |
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| Description: | Matthew Witt's photo studio on Main Street. His business was there for 50 years, from 1913 to 1963. Two men are sitting on the stoop in the doorway. The bu... |
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| Description: | Man displaying two horses in front of a photographer's wagon that says "C.R. Monroe, Traveling Photographer." Two women, one holding a photograph, are pose... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre... |
| Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organi... |
| Date: | 10 01 1958 |
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| Description: | Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organ... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Young men and women are posing in boats near a shoreline. Two images ar... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Four of the images are of individuals or small groups of people, who ma... |
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| Description: | Five circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera, with one spot unexposed. Starting on the left is: view from shoreline ... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Several of the images are view of a lake, and the others have are of pe... |
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| Description: | View of groups of people sitting at picnic tables under rows of trees that lead down to a lake at a resort. More people are standing or walking near buildi... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group portrait of five people, including three men, two women, and an infant, posing on the grass in a wooded area. In the background, on ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. poses in front of the family Drug Store and Eland Post Office. He was postmaster in Eland for many years on and off, also Justi... |
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| Description: | View across snowy street towards a two-story commercial building with a false front. The sign painted on the front reads "Photograph Gallery." A man and a ... |
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