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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
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| Description: | View along tree-lined shoreline toward the boardwalk along changing rooms. Further down the shoreline is the diving platform and covered pier on the lake. ... |
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| Description: | Two women and three men sitting in rowboat not far from the shore, posing for the camera. The dock and changing houses are in the background on the far sho... |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | View of the Consolidated Paper Company Offices standing on the bank of the Wisconsin River. The Consolidated Paper Company formed in 1894. |
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| Description: | Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Cranberry harvesters use wooden booms and rakes to gather cranberries from a flooded marsh. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. In the background is a truck and a tractor. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Man driving machine used to harvest cranberries on a flooded marsh. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A team of cranberry harvesters work in a line across a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Three men, in waders, harvesting cranberries by hand with cranberry rakes. In the background other harvesting teams are visible, as well as crates of harve... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is operating a horse-drawn mower in what appears to be a setting in the deep south, with Spanish moss hanging from the Cyprus trees and a body of wat... |
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| Description: | A river navigation light on the Mississippi River. People were paid to keep them lit so the steam boats could operate at night. Bearded man sitting at bas... |
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| Description: | Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
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| Description: | A female model poses in profile while leaning back against rocks. She is wearing a black bathing suit and knee-high stockings. In the background is a lake ... |
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