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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A girl using a type of spinning wheel. She is wearing a kimono and a head wrapping. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Women working in a textile factory. They are cleaning or dying material. Carrie describes the work at textile factories in her journal from China as crowde... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food. |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between F... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm in Racine County. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad righ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with men shoveling out a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train about 3.5 miles north of Ripon. The locomotive is in the backg... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men, many holding shovels, standing on the left watching a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train pushing through snow, somewher... |
| Date: | 02 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men holding shovels pausing and looking toward the camera. Behind them is a railroad train in deep snow. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a Wisconsin & Michigan train pushing through snow. Men are shoveling snow in front of it. Smoke is billowing from the front of the train. |
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| Description: | Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. A man is standing in the snow-covered yard in the foreground near a sleigh, and a carriage with a sign painted on the si... |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we... |
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| Description: | View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House. |
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| Description: | Several men work on a large printing press at the Milwaukee Sentinel. A man is stacking newspapers and two men are reading copies of the paper. |
| Date: | 11 29 1908 |
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| Description: | Men working on pulling the boat "Fish Hawk" out of the water. One man is kneeling in front of the boat and looking at the camera. A man in the background i... |
| Date: | 05 23 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children are standing and watching as a Gillette employee works on the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. From l... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working. |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
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| Description: | Straight-on standing portrait of a Gisholt laborer in work apron, suspenders, boots and brimmed hat. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, he is standing wi... |
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| Description: | Portrait oftwo Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Tak... |
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