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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the industrial warehouse district. There are horse-drawn wagons lined up along loading docks, with men working in the area. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se... |
| Date: | 07 31 1947 |
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| Description: | Highway lane painting truck painting lane lines on Highways 12-13-14, University Avenue between Madison and Middleton. This is the first highway in the sta... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | People EW working with floats for a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a D-300-H truck used for garbage collection. Hercules body hydraulic hoist. Rounded sliding covers. Waterproof tailga... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin c... |
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| Description: | View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a group of children standing in front of the Glander Building under construction on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washingto... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ... |
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| Description: | A soldier carrying supplies to the headquarters, preparing to head to the front. |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man using a McCormick Deering hoist. A group of men are manually setting a lamppost or other object onto a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 10 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two workmen in coveralls are laying hose to pump water from a flooded pit where the Pioneer Building was demolished at Main Street and Monona Avenue. On th... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to install a telephone pole on a city block. Other men are standing at the front of the ... |
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