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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of across street toward buildings, which include the offices of Dr. L. Campbell (house on the left) and Dr. Anton Nelson, the father ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1946 |
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| Description: | Thomas Lackland, proprietor of Lackland Pharmacy, poses with a clerk behind a well-stocked counter, full of a variety of personal hygiene items. |
| Date: | 09 21 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ... |
| Date: | 07 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. |
| Date: | 07 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Poster with words "Holidays With Pay!" at the bottom illustrated by sketches of workers punching in to work and of people relaxing on a beach. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A group of carpenters pose in front of an unfinished building. The caption reads "Carpenters union donate wages to community fund". |
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| Description: | Kensell Willingham, son of a worker out for eight months on strike against O'Sullivan Rubber Company, holds a sign that reads "Help My Daddy Win". Caption ... |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a Union Label booth, perhaps at a county or state fair. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan... |
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| Description: | A float in the last Madison Federation of Labor sponsored Labor Day parade. The float, which was one of the winners, was sponsored by Machinist Lodge 1406 ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them. |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Artist Robert Thom is seen here working on one of his paintings, this one titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia". |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
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| Description: | Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks hauling logs with several teams of oxen. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
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