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Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | The Fauerbach Beer display at the Grocery Convention. The display consists of many bottles of beer, beer cases, die cut cardboard displays, cloth bunting a... |
Date: | 04 10 1927 |
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Description: | Elevated view of buildings in the 200 block of State Street, with the Orpheum Theatre as a focal point. The theatre marquee reads "New Orpheum." Next door ... |
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Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
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Description: | View outside John Royal's office door. There are milk bottles and newspapers piled at the door and on it hangs a sign that reads "Out As Usual". |
Date: | 07 29 1955 |
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Description: | Millard's Tavern, 504 East Wilson Street with Fauerbach CB beer sign and "Bobby Hodges radio & TV star, Every Friday Night." Also shows Marty's Sandwich Sh... |
Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | Independent presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette, Sr., standing behind a radio microphone delivering a Labor Day address. |
Date: | 09 07 1935 |
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Description: | Exterior night view of the Nancee Hat Shop at 7 South Pinckney Street featuring hats, purses and an Art Deco entrance. |
Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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Description: | A pharmacist checks the stocks of biologicals in a large, modern "walk-in" refrigerator. |
Date: | 11 25 1931 |
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Description: | This building on the corner of Main Street (to the left) and King Street (to the right) was built for John J. Suhr and designed by John Nader. Here it hous... |
Date: | 03 03 1932 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Belmont Hotel, located at the corner of North Pinckney Street and E. Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square. |
Date: | 08 18 1932 |
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Description: | View of the Parkway Theatre marquee down West Mifflin Street, and a sign for the "RKO's Greater Show Season and Merchant's Greater Selling Season" on a lam... |
Date: | 01 24 1936 |
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Description: | The Orpheum Theatre canopy and sign at night on the 200 block of State Street. The Orpheum Theatre marquee notes: "Shep Fields" on stage, and "Kind Lady" o... |
Date: | 03 14 1956 |
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Description: | Night view of the "Mifflin Arcade" with terra cotta facade. Businesses include Silver Dollar Tavern at 117 West Mifflin Street, Sibyl Hats at 119 West Miff... |
Date: | 02 08 1941 |
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Description: | A clerk checks the status of the refrigerated stocks of various biological materials at the D.F. Jones Pharmacy. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig... |
Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
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