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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man sitting at a desk writing on a tablet. A poster illustrated with cows is hanging on the wall in front of him, reading "World All-American Selections ... |
| Date: | 04 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Left-handed students in Mary Kier's fourth grade class at Nakoma Elementary School, 3780 Nakoma Road, show how easy it is to write "just like everyone else... |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Economics Professor James S. Earley, is vice-president of the university teachers union (Local 223 of the AFL American Fed... |
| Date: | 05 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat. |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
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| Description: | Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a man who is posing standing with one leg resting on luggage and holding a pencil and a bill pad in front of a painted backdrop. He is... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right... |
| Date: | 12 12 1949 |
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| Description: | The winners of the Madison Civic Music Association essay contest for high school students pose for a portrait. Left to right: Francis Axley, 3515 Sunset ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man inside a building uses a hanging scale to weigh a can of milk. He writes the weight on a chart hanging adjacent to the scale. |
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| Description: | Robert Albert Bloch, author of Psycho, surrounded by tall bookshelves full of books, is sitting in front of a typewriter with an open cigarette case... |
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| Description: | A rare "straight" portrait of author and Gauer friend Robert Bloch, which was taken for a series Gauer called "how they looked then." |
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