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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 07 14 1897 |
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| Description: | James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van. |
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| Description: | A bartender behind the bar is reflected in the mirror of a cigarette machine, while men drink beer and play cards in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Construction workers with hard hats take a break while working on the construction of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 12 12 1947 |
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| Description: | 'Roundy' Coughlin receiving a check for $1,085 from eleven contributors for "Roundy's Fun Fund". The money is to be used for Camp Wawbeek which is located... |
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| Description: | A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers wearing hardhats stand outside a storefront while on a break. |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Allan J. McAndrews, left, a Madison attorney, was the toastmaster at the Edgewood High School football banquet. Seated at the speakers table with him are B... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | International Harvester employees on a golf course. The employees are M.F. Peckels (left), supervisor of national fleet sales, and M.F. McCarty, manager of... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison area magician (standing third from the left), with a group of Chicago area magicians. Identified individuals are (seated, left to rig... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a pipe sitting on a horse-drawn grain binder. Around him are young boys with horses. Another man is standing on the right. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company. In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut... |
| Date: | 06 29 1958 |
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| Description: | Joan Boeker (left), and Julia and Glarice Pierce with their newspaper carrier son, LeRoy, watching the Milwaukee Brave's game at a stadium. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four war correspondents pose for a gag photo. Identified (left to right) Frank Morris, Collier's Magazine; Harold Smith, Chicago Tribune; Ray... |
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