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| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
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| Description: | An unidentified engineer and fireman in the cab of a Wisconsin & Michigan locomotive. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of employees and patrons gathered around a beer and sandwich concession stand on the midway at the Wisconsin State Fair, where Gettelman On T... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Construction workers stand in front of the Butterfield covered bridge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Tearing down Eau Claire House to make way for the Y.M.C.A. building. A man is standing on the roof. A sign in the street reads, in part: "Electric Light He... |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 03 31 1905 |
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| Description: | An unidentified Falk employee stands next to a large Steel Spur Gear. The sign in the photograph reads: "Cast Steel Spur Gear. Made by The Falk Co. Milwauk... |
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| Description: | A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work". |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
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| Description: | Shops contained on first floor of a Victorian structure, one of which belongs to a woman named Mary. Standing in front are her husband and two sons. Furthe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background. |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking Northwest. Workers are standing on the right next to the exposed drainage pipes in the damaged bridge. Sheets and quilts are covering the entranc... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Men standing along the bar of local saloon owned by Liegeois Brothers. Blacksmith Joseph Liegeois, Jr. and his brother John are on the end of the bar. John... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ... |
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