Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buildi... |
Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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Description: | Madison Turnverein acrobats/gymnasts posing in an adagio formation, tutored by J.C. Haberman, at Madison Turner Hall, located at 21 South Butler Street. |
Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Webb house with family standing on back porch. House built by John Webb, an early immigrant and Cornish miner. |
Date: | 01 1874 |
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Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Medical inspection of immigrants at Ellis Island. |
Date: | 01 17 1956 |
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Description: | Men and women holding United States flags after a ceremony in the federal courtroom making them naturalized citizens. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | A convention of Russian immigrants at Beethoven Hall in New York City. The newspaper caption for this photograph describes the Bolshevik communist faction... |
Date: | 05 1940 |
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Description: | Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Polish immigrant women at the Market Square wearing traditional, national clothing. In the background are brick buildings. A sign on one building reads: "C... |
Date: | 05 30 1851 |
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Description: | Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis... |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Printed petition addressed to Governor Leonard J. Farwell concerning the lack of qualifications of the present state Emigrant Agent and their desire for th... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls, hats a... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o... |
Date: | 05 17 1944 |
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Description: | Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ... |
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