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Description: | Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County. |
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Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
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Description: | Elevated view of a group of people posing on and around horse-drawn sleds. There is a man on the porch of the building in the background. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Color advertising poster for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machinery showing two ladies and a gentleman in a red automobile, waving ... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Peshtigo Fire, showing people seeking refuge in the Peshtigo River. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals. There is ... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | View down main street with storefronts on both sides, with large power lines along the sidewalks stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements with six color illustrations. The largest is of a portrait of a woman holding flowers. The other color... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als... |
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