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| Date: | 08 1915 |
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| Description: | Howard Greene ("Dad") sitting on a stool outdoors writing in a notebook. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Howard Greene (center) writing in the Presque Isle River Travel Journal at camp. Howard T. is sitting next to him. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale Breese (1874-1938) posing outdoors for a full-length portrait in doctoral academic cap and gown on the occasion of receiving an honorary Doctor o... |
| Date: | 07 17 2015 |
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| Description: | View of a blue ceramic bowl sitting on an ornately decorated cloth. Behind it is a poster or page from a book with two photographs of a monarch butterfly e... |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| Date: | 08 27 1989 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on his sofa, watching his son write a card. Caption reads: "Joe Gofoe said he and his son Elton, 5, were 'big boys' and could handle the f... |
| Date: | 06 28 1967 |
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| Description: | View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe while at a rehearsal for the play "After the Fall." |
| Date: | 09 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Glenn Mason is watching as Jerome Hoffman makes a written announcement that Wilbur Zwitter (center) has been re-elected president of the South Side Men's C... |
| Date: | 03 22 2011 |
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| Description: | Jesse Jackson is standing backstage and editing his speech on top of sound equipment at UW-LaCrosse. |
| Date: | 12 02 1953 |
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| Description: | J. Frank Wilkinson signs autographs for Tom Novick and three boys at the annual father-son banquet at University Methodist Church. |
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| Description: | Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button... |
| Date: | 03 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Milton S. Mayer (1908-1986), journalist with a column in the Progressive Magazine. |
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| Description: | Male stock yard farmers wearing overall bibs, hats, and buttons are standing and sitting around inside a large room. On the left, a man dressed in a button... |
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| Description: | The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Wounded German soldiers writing quick notes home before the departure of the train. A sign on the far left reads: "Annahme von Handgepäck." |
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| Description: | Scribe (for the illiterate) on the streets of Damascus. |
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| Description: | Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home. |
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| Description: | Scribes in the streets of Damascus writing letters to the parents. |
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| Description: | Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) resting in a forest on the southern battlefront. |
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