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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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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: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Farmall Regular version of the McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor. Includes photographs of the machine in use. The Fairway was de... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustrations of Champion brand horse-drawn mowers, reapers, grain binders and hay rakes, as well as an illustration of ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Champion brand reapers, mowers, grain binders and dump rakes featuring color illustrations of the implements, including a larger col... |
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| Description: | Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a Diamond Iron(?) tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. |
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female workers and an attendant reading magazines and relaxing inside a "rest room" at International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent. |
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| Description: | Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ... |
| 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: | Personnel of the old Miles Orton Circus outside a tent in their 1891-92 New Orleans' quarters. |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
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| Description: | Rose Dockrill of Delavan, Wisconsin. A female circus performer described as "a swell artist and fine looker and dresser." |
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| Description: | A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them. |
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| Description: | Frank B. Miller of Wright City, Missouri, was a jockey and circus rider. |
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