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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Book or Pamphlet

Beloit Harvester and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Beloit harvester and twine binder manufactured by the Parker-Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. The cover features...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Print

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma...
Photograph

Farm Plow

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two horses pull a spring tooth harrow. The farmer plans to plant barley.
Photograph

Badwater Bill and His Burro

Date: 03 16 1963
Description: "The eyes of the guests popped, but room clerk Frank R. Witte, 1133 E Knapp Street, took it in stride Friday afternoon when Badwater Bill, accompanied by h...
Photograph

Harness Racing at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1953
Description: Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand.
Photograph

Harness Racers Neck and Neck

Date: 
Description: Five harness racing horses, sulkies, and drivers race around the Wisconsin State Fair track as an audience watches from the grandstand.
Painting

The New Synagogue in Ward II

Date: 1858
Description: A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt...
Photograph

Loading Docks

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the industrial warehouse district. There are horse-drawn wagons lined up along loading docks, with men working in the area.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Fire Engine

Date: 
Description: Three men in a horse-drawn fire engine racing down a downtown street.
Photograph

Chicken Plucking

Date: 
Description: A chicken plucking demonstration at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Drawing

Solomon Juneau House

Date: 1836
Description: Drawing of the Solomon Juneau house on East Michigan. There are tethered bears on either side of the front door. Two people are leaning on the fence, watch...
Photograph

Commission Row

Date: 
Description: A view of Commission Row, known for its fresh produce markets, looking northwest on N. Broadway between E. Buffalo and E. Chicago Streets.
Photograph

Fourth of July Crowd at Humboldt Park

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: Children canoeing in the pond with swans, while other children are watching. There are adults and children in the background near a building.
Photograph

Cawker Buliding

Date: 1915
Description: The northeast corner of the Cawker Building at W. Wells Street and N. Plankinton Avenue.

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