Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
Date: | 1966 |
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Description: | Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard. |
Date: | 08 12 1977 |
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Description: | A man picks up grass from a lawn, with garbage bags of mowed lawn clippings lined up behind him. A lawn mower stands on the sidewalk nearby. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Full-length outdoor portrait of Ho-Chunk Chief Silver Tongue standing holding an axe. Brick wall, foliage, and blankets in the background. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County. |
Date: | 05 28 1987 |
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Description: | A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained. |
Date: | 06 25 1988 |
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Description: | St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival. |
Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Young man in a field spraying pesticide on crops for the Bowker Insecticide Company. |
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