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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Brick building containing the Olaf Noer Drugstore. A man (presumably Mr. Noer himself) poses in the doorway. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. |
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| Description: | American Nazi protesting the rights of African Americans. |
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| Description: | An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England. |
| Date: | 03 29 1958 |
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| Description: | A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The 100 block of State Street showing capitol steps, pedestrians crossing in front of cars, and the storefronts for Dykeman's Tempting Food and Olson's clo... |
| Date: | 04 29 1963 |
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| Description: | Rose Sorenson is waving her baton with one arm, while her other arm is in a sling. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Mrs. McCormick i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A piece of fabric (approximately 1" x 1") from the 1903 Wright Flyer. It is attached to a certificate and includes a photograph. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 11 22 1929 |
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| Description: | View from street of the facade of the Capitol Theatre with marquee advertising "Harold Lloyd," "Welcome Danger," and "His first all talking comedy thrille... |
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