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Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
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Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
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Description: | Elevated view of a group of people posing on and around horse-drawn sleds. There is a man on the porch of the building in the background. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ... |
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Description: | Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A fire fighter's excursion on the "Vernie Mac" at a landing near Taylor Falls on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excursion barge is a... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Exterior of the 6th Ward School, 1237 Williamson Street, built in 1894. Several people are posing on the road and sidewalk in front of the building with tw... |
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Description: | East Water Street looking North from Huron Street. There is an advertisement over street for Goldsmith Carpets. Women are crossing the street. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi... |
Date: | 10 31 1932 |
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Description: | Children in Halloween costumes carrying signs for Jimmy Durante's "Phantom President" movie, including horse and carriage with drivers and riders. |
Date: | 09 24 1932 |
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Description: | Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
Date: | 09 13 1949 |
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Description: | A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to m... |
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