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Poster

Civilian Conservation Corps Poster

Date: 1939
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...
Drawing

Menominee Men Playing Games

Date: 
Description: Menominee men playing the moccasin or bullet game.
Book or Pamphlet

Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

Date: 
Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
Book or Pamphlet

Mrs. Caroline Quarlls Watkins

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Caroline Quarlls Watkins, taken when she lived in Sandwich, Ontario.
Book or Pamphlet

Picking Cotton

Date: 06 1931
Description: African Americans picking cotton on a large plantation in Virginia.
Photograph

Parade on Main Street

Date: 1899
Description: View of a marching band parading beneath a decorated arch on Main Street. Onlookers line both sides of the street. American flags are flying over the road ...
Photograph

A.N. Meyer

Date: 1902
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of A.N. Meyer, wearing a suit jacket, vest, and tie.
Photograph

Henry Weber

Date: 1902
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Henry Weber, wearing a suit jacket, vest, and tie.
Photograph

Valentin Jesion

Date: 1902
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Valentin Jesion.
Photograph

Ice Skating on the Manitowoc River

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of a winter scene with a large group of people skating on the frozen Manitowoc River between the 8th and 10th Street bridges. A dog trots acr...
Photograph

District 2 Class Picture

Date: 1892
Description: Group of schoolchildren posed sitting and standing on a fallen tree trunk. They are dressed in their finest clothes for a school photograph. One of the boy...
Photograph

Construction of Schuette Bros. Store

Date: 1901
Description: Construction crew raising a brick building. The structure is entirely surrounded by scaffolding. A large stone piece is being hoisted into place while a wo...
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Employees

Date: 1888
Description: Men who worked for Schuette Brothers Store assembled in front of the store. There are horses on both sides of the photograph, and the one on the right is p...
Photograph

Schuette Bros. Employees

Date: 1910
Description: Five female employees and one male employee posed at the jewelry counter of Schuette Brothers Store. There is an American Red Cross Christmas Seals poster ...
Photograph

Rand & Roemer Hardware Co.

Date: 1910
Description: Group of five men standing in front of Rand and Roemer Hardware Company store. Many items can be seen on the sidewalk and through the store windows, includ...
Photograph

Ward S. Williams Co. after Tornado

Date: 07 1899
Description: People stand among the rubble of Ward S. Williams Co.'s stone block building after a tornado.
Photograph

Ronald Reagan Campaigning for President

Date: 
Description: Ronald Reagan shakes hands with workers in front of a Manitowoc crane.
Book or Pamphlet

Robert Bond Campfield

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Robert Bond Campfield, seated in a chair.
Manuscript

Agoston Haraszthy

Date: 
Description: Waist-up portrait of Agoston Haraszthy, 1812-1869.
Photograph

Community Gathering

Date: 05 1924
Description: View of an outdoor gathering of an African American community.

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