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| Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 09 21 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ... |
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| Description: | Man driving Hough Payloader, clearing land and loading demolition debris. Hough became a subsidiary of International Harvester Company. |
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| Description: | Workers pose on the frame of a barn they are building. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
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| Description: | View of a chain gang from the front window of a car. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
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| Description: | A group of men constructing a bungalow at University Settlement Camp. Three ladders are being used and five men are on the roof. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Barn with stone foundation on the Winnebago County Asylum grounds. In the foreground behind a fence is a herd of cattle, and to the right is a man standing... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm. |
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| Description: | Two men stand with a small herd of cattle on a path between fenced-in and planted fields on the side of a hill. Two buildings are in the background. |
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| Description: | Man delivering mail in winter using a sled pulled by two horses. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | John Quinney, Richard Quinney's grandfather, standing in front of a horse-drawn harrow on the fields of his farm. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across field toward ranch hands having dinner at the chuckwagon. A dozen or so men are sitting on the ground, while a few other ranch hands mind the c... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of cowboys posing outside of their log cabin dwelling. Three stand against the wall, while four sit. The sitter on the right has a banjo. In the lef... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a cowgirl and cowboy on horseback. Their horses are facing each other as they look at the camera. A lake or river is in the background. Caption... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight cowgirls on horseback lined up on a low rise with a river or stream behind them. Caption reads: "No. 116 Cowgirls, 101 Ranch, Oklah... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View across water toward six cowgirls on their horses, with their reflection in the water. Ranch outbuildings are in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgir... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a cowgirl sitting on a horse. A fence runs along the left, with an open field in the background. Caption reads: "Cowgirl on 101 Ranch, Oklahoma... |
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