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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom... |
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| Description: | Young farmer Harvey A. Nelson, holding onto a large horse's lead, is standing next to an International truck at Gray View Farm. The truck's front bumper be... |
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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: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers wearing hardhats stand outside a storefront while on a break. |
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| Description: | A man in a plaid shirt and heavy apron holding the hoof of a horse in one hand, and a long file in the other. They are surrounded by metal wares and metal ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby cars being inspected the day before the race at Hult's Capital Garage at 608 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man or young boy is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. Two young boys are standing near the grain binder, and another boy is on h... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair under construction. The steel frame of the building is visible behind a sign for Thatcher Construct... |
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| Description: | View from the street of John Hahn standing on the right with a horse hitched to a passenger wagon. In the center is the furniture moving wagon he owns, in ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large group of people posing in a field. There are five men on five McCormick binders. A child is standing in front of one of t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from rear of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a sloped field on the right. On the left a group of people are posing. Men and a young boy ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of men posing in a line in a field with five horse-drawn binders in a field. A man is sitting on horseback to the left of... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards two men and a young boy standing in a field near two men using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. One of the men is riding one of the h... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are working in field with shocks of grain as two men are using horse-drawn McCormick binders in a field. A man on the left is on horseback. Two other m... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov... |
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| Description: | A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis... |
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| Description: | A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on... |
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