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| 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... |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett with camera near Steamboat Rock. There is a man on shore reading, and a woman in a canoe at the edge of the river. |
| Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct on the line along the Milwaukee River. The viaduct has two arched passages, and stones and rocks lining the path f... |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
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| Description: | Henry Hamilton Bennett stands with his camera on a platform. He built the platform in order to take photographs of passengers in the boats that toured the ... |
| Date: | 10 1987 |
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| Description: | "Winfred Herberg, a perennial jokester, does a spoof on how to clean a camera lens." |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Bennett's crew hauling a portable darkroom through a pond of water. They are on their way to Stand Rock. Text at right: "Wanderings Among th... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | This bird’s-eye-view map is a series of photographs compiled to show local streets and buildings. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest camera owned by Stanley Hanks. These six images are of young men engaged in out... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Most of the images are primarily of young men posing near or in boats, ... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of young men and women posing near a shoreline or on boa... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Young men and women are posing in boats near a shoreline. Two images ar... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Three are of puppies, one is of a small boy, and another is of a group ... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Four of the images are of individuals or small groups of people, who ma... |
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| Description: | Five circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera, with one spot unexposed. Starting on the left is: view from shoreline ... |
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| Description: | Four circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Two images are unexposed, and the rest are of young people posing outd... |
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| Description: | Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of a variety of excursion boats, sailboats, and horse-dr... |
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