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| Date: | 1886 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across field and fence downhill towards the town of Fish Creek and the bay. Caption reads: "Greetings from Fish Creek, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view above Shorewood Hills near Madison, looking northeast. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Plymouth. Published by McLaughlin Aerial Surveys. |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys pose by a pond. A boy holds a long, probably bamboo, fishing rod. Two men jokingly pose as if they are dancing the tango. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View across snowy field of a shingled house, barn and other outbuildings standing empty near the shore of Lake Michigan at Newport Village. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over city. A church is in the middle foreground, and the Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. On the right side is a dir... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Madison taken from Summit Avenue looking East South East toward Lake Monona. Included in the view are the Camp Randall bleachers, St. Rap... |
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| Description: | View over town, including hotel and church, towards the Mississippi River. The far shoreline and bluffs are in the distance. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view over fields of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing Bascom Hall, the Observatory, and King Hall from University Heights. Lak... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of harbors and bridge. Farm fields are on either side of the bridge. The city of Sturgeon Bay is in the distance. There are docks along the sho... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of harbor. In the foreground is a lighthouse and breakwaters. Bridges cross the harbor, and there are factory and industrial buildings near the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man on a McCormick binder on a transport truck. Nearby is a horse-drawn carriage. In the far background is a town and a large body... |
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| Description: | The Stanley Hanks cottage at Fox Bluff on the shore of Lake Mendota. There is a fence around the property, and a boat is pulled up on the shoreline. |
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