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Date: | 05 19 1952 |
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Description: | Marie McNeil, left and Arleen Plater, right, displaying the dresses they will model in the Maple Bluff Country Club style show. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A boy wearing a coat and hat standing on a sidewalk while delivering newspapers to nearby homes. Attached to his newspaper bag is a sign reading: "Cook Cou... |
Date: | 04 1930 |
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Description: | Three women standing at the entrance of the Western Union branch office at 650 State Street. The woman in the middle is Beatrice Lamoreux. She and her husb... |
Date: | 04 28 1939 |
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Description: | The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel... |
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Description: | "Bob's Moen Photo" Owner Bob Mulock (on the right) with customer Hans Laping. |
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Description: | View of the exterior of the Copeland Ryder Shoe Company, established in 1868. The three-story brick building is bordered by trees, a sidewalk, and a road a... |
Date: | 11 1951 |
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Description: | Military personnel at an early morning briefing at the First Corps headquarters in Korea. American journalist Cecil Brown is seated next to the officer in ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is siftting flour into a bowl in a kitchen. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. The table in front of h... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A woman wearing a uniform and cloth hat is kneading bread dough on a board on a wooden table. Her dress has buttoned-on cuffs on the sleeves. A flour sifte... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A boy wearing overalls and a straw hat is carrying a metal pail across a barnyard. |
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Description: | Young women pose in a hosiery factory where they are employed. |
Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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Description: | Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. |
Date: | 10 1926 |
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Description: | Two men are resting against a haystack while smoking pipes. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm to demonstrat... |
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Description: | Five women circus performers in full costume pose behind a clothesline upon which bras, underwear, gloves and socks hang to dry. |
Date: | 10 1923 |
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Description: | A woman using a cheesecloth to strain the contents of a bucket into a cream separator at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Fa... |
Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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Description: | Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | A wooden chair on casters sitting in front of a large office desk, possibly at an International Harvester branch house, dealership or factory. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
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Description: | Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
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