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| Date: | 02 13 1948 |
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| Description: | A mechanic spray painting a vehicle at Kayser Motors, located at 701 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Farmall Tractor outside the Kupfer Foundry and Iron Works, 101 Waubesa Street. Photograph taken for R.L. Kulzick advertising agency. |
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| Description: | A wintery view of the Southern Wisconsin Railway Company car barn. |
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| Description: | Standard Seed Company located at 732 Williamson Street, built in 1898. The company moved to 653 West Washington Avenue in 1940. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
| Date: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 110 Wisconsin State Journal paper carriers taken prior to leaving for Blue Mounds State Park for the annual all-day outing. |
| Date: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Joe Puccio, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian C. Puccio, working with a drill press in the shop of Henry Peiss to construct his soap box racer. The Ne... |
| Date: | 07 19 1948 |
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| Description: | The higher antenna of the WIBA tower and transmitting station increased the power of the station for the newly operational FM transmission at the Blue Moun... |
| Date: | 08 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men standing indoors next to a Wisconsin Central Airplane. |
| Date: | 09 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Monarch Machine Shop at 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue, with metal projects and parts in yard. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Building, in process of construction on campus. There are cars in a parking lot in the foreground. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Julian Swan at work with a linotype machine. |
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| Description: | Graphic depiction of the MG&E plant showing stacks releasing smoke into the air. Text reads "FIGHT! the MADISON GAS & ELECTRIC rate increase". |
| Date: | 07 11 1938 |
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| Description: | A McCormick-Deering eight can cooler on the production floor of the Lake City Bottling Company. |
| Date: | 07 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers packing bottles (possibly of soda) near a McCormick-Deering 8 can cooler at Lake City Bottling Company. |
| Date: | 08 18 1949 |
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| Description: | A weedburner of the Illinois Central Railway in action burns ragweed along railroad tracks. The weedburner is a self-propelled unit equipped with an oil-bu... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of female workers at the Red Dot Potato Chip Company. Fourth from the left in the top row is Vivian Harrison Matheson, identified by Ellis... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of campus up University Avenue from the tower of the First Congregational Church on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Scene along the Yahara River where the body of Max Hobert, a Madison bartender, was found. |
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