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Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
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Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers on the bottling line at the Schlitz Brewery. |
Date: | 05 1960 |
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Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Hop pickers posing by stands of harvested hops. |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
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: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
Date: | 08 24 1907 |
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Description: | August, Tina, Sarah, Jennie, Edgar and Alex Krueger posing outdoors in a field. Alex took this photograph remotely with a string tied to the shutter of the... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
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: | 06 1837 |
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Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant. |
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... |
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