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| Date: | 05 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu... |
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| Description: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
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| Description: | A scene in a field of men posing on and near a thresher. A man sits on a wagon with four or five pairs of horses standing around him. There is an oval-shap... |
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| Description: | A barber is smiling for the camera, while the customer resting back in the chair in front of him is looking on with a sidelong look. |
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| Description: | A barber glances at the camera as he clips hair from a customer. The customer is reflected in a mirror in the background. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cook in the kitchen cutting a roast. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a kitchen in a logging camp with light coming in from a window on the far right. Two men are posing standing, and another man is sitting i... |
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| Description: | Sid, with a cigar in his mouth, a metal lampshade on his head, and wearing a backpack, is laying across two desks in an office with a broom in his arms as ... |
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| Description: | A Karabis Tavern employee wearing a paper hat and white coat fills Tom & Jerry batter containers in a kitchen or preparation area. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a white t-shirt, white pants, and paper hat, is standing and holding a container in his left hand and operating a lever with his right hand f... |
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| Description: | A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street. |
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| Description: | Nude woman with body painting eating a plate of strawberries and whipped cream. Sitting on a stool in a garage, she is painted like a tiger, with stripes c... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A cobbler repairing a boot in his shop. Many boots are lined up on the floor, and a bench of tools is behind him. A calendar from J.B. Yunker & Sons hangs ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sid with an 8x10 view camera in front of a building in the winter. Sid is wearing a coat and a dark cloth over his shoulder and holding an 8x10... |
| Date: | 05 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Parakeet Mike posing on one blade of a pair of scissors belonging to barber Roy Brumley, who works at the Belmont Hotel barber shop. Brumley is holding the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | With ax in hand, Wallace Rumsey is standing on a gigantic fallen tree. Caption reads: "Wallace — Chopper." |
| Date: | 08 06 1960 |
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| Description: | A zookeeper poses with a net and three large box traps. Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 19... |
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