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| Date: | 07 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Capital Times model home under construction at 2318 Monroe Street. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 11 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 04 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Steve Schmidt house under construction in Sherman Park subdivision. The house is located at 1406 Farragut Street. |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) family moving their disassembled wagon and grindstone from one village to another on two canoes somewhere in northern Wisconsin. This i... |
| Date: | 06 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Helene Stratman-Thomas with an unidentified man and child, possibly at Winnebago (HoChunk) Indian Village. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workmen working on the Herbert F. Johnson Residence, "Wingspread," designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The building was completed in 1937. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Sjur Starkson Reque home. From left to right, seated, are Martha Reque, Mari Reque Lee, Brita Reque Quale, Nels Lee and Ole Quale. Standing are Anna Ma... |
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| Description: | Cowboys come in for dinner at an Indian Territory ranch house. Their horses wait near trees. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ansel Adams at his home in Carmel walks toward his International Travelall with camera platform mounted on top. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The John J. Suhr residence, 121 Langdon Street, built in 1886 for immigrant John J. Suhr, Sr. (1836-1901), who in 1871 founded the German-American Bank, la... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A rear view of the Atwood / Buck-Neckerman house, at 210-214 Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard). Built by David Atwood and his partner R... |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with a crawler track and a Monarch loader. |
| Date: | 01 19 1916 |
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| Description: | Two men demonstrate the "old way" of hauling using a push cart loaded with 2,200 pounds. The men are likely factory workers at Osborne Works (also known as... |
| Date: | 01 13 1916 |
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| Description: | Factory working demonstrating the "new way" of hauling by pulling carts loaded with 16,000 pounds of parts using a shop mule. The man is most likely a work... |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store. |
| Date: | 12 1926 |
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| Description: | International Model S truck parked on a residential street. The truck was operated by the Sievert Electric Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "S... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
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