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Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail. |
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Description: | L.E. Mercer, of Lenox Iowa, posed with honey-producing equipment. Mercer is wearing a full suit, bow tie, and hat. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of a fisherman with his lure, spear, and catch. |
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Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
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Description: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
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Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk woman tanning a buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background. |
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Description: | Ho-Chunk woman tanning buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background. |
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: | 09 1908 |
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Description: | Carpenter standing with his hand on a C. Parker bench vise attached to a work bench at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was b... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Employee standing at a work bench with his hand on a hammer, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works. |
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... |
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Description: | Portrait of sculptor Adolph Weinman. He sculpted the South Pediment at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln that sits in f... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
Date: | 06 01 1934 |
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Description: | Jean Randolph, with bandaged ankle, which she sprained when she fell from the ladder on which she is standing, drawing an 8' x 12' crayon mural of a knight... |
Date: | 07 11 1933 |
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Description: | Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by... |
Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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Description: | Wood County 4-H girl, Olive Charboneau of Vesper, mixing pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen. This was during the competiti... |
Date: | 11 18 1931 |
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Description: | Marian Dolan, of the Maple Knoll 4-H club north of Sun Prairie, 1931 National 4-H champion, making a cake. Shows a Hershey's Cocoa can. |
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