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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: | 09 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Photographer from Kaufmann and Fabry on top of an International C-1 truck at the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. Kaufmann and Fabry were the official ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 10 30 1936 |
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| Description: | Homecoming display window at McVicar Photo Service, 751 University Avenue, featuring Wisconsin vs. Chicago football game with advertising for Agfa film. Al... |
| Date: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) fall festival. |
| Date: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) fall festival. Showing cameras. |
| Date: | 09 09 1929 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Featuring the AGFA film, and several of his photographs. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F... |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a football uniform demonstrates the art of drop-kicking the football. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard titled: "Athletic Clubs - Work and Play Develop the Right Kind of Men." Images on the poster show International Harvester employees on ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "Clubs - Fostered for Good Fellowship; Recreation for Good Health." promoting International Harvester's ideas on the im... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "McCormick Club House - Here Physical, Mental and Moral Sides of Employee are Developed Equally." Includes images of th... |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Copy negative from William J. Meuer Albums of Kate Whitney and Forrest Anderson ice skating. |
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| Description: | Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt and Sigurd Olson, during the session when Eisenstadt photographed Olson for Life magazine. |
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| Description: | Group of children at the Cherry Street branch of the Evansville Public Library using steropticons to view stereograph images. Bookshelves line the back wal... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | William Middleton, left, plays chess against an unidentified opponent. Williams' son, Forest, with chin in hands, watches with an unidentified man and wom... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, left, prepares a pool shot while his opponent looks on. They are playing on a portable pool table in Forest's room. Photographs, cigar ad... |
| Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Four men examining various Packers memorabilia, including images of the first Packers team from 1919, the team from 1929, other unidentified team lineups, ... |
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