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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster. |
| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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| Description: | Farmer, possibly Walter Stange, cutting wood with a circular saw run by a 1 1/2 H.P. Type M McCormick-Deering gas engine. |
| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a man operating a hammer mill powered by a McCormick Super W-4 tractor in the doorway of a barn. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | R.A. Hayne on a ladder repairing a barn door. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Unveiled in 1909, the Lincoln Statue was created by sculptor Adolf Weinman of Hodgenville, K... |
| Date: | 08 02 1903 |
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| Description: | Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1935 |
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| Description: | Men cutting firewood with a belt-driven saw powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the farm of Spencer Johnson. |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Farmer cutting wood with a circular saw powered by a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
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