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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 ... |
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| Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
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| Description: | A crew of people from the circus, possibly Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey, holding up their catch after a fishing trip. |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals. |
| Date: | 02 1886 |
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| Description: | A formal announcement of a Co-operative Fair that was held in March of 1886. |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a Union Label booth, perhaps at a county or state fair. |
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| Description: | A float in the last Madison Federation of Labor sponsored Labor Day parade. The float, which was one of the winners, was sponsored by Machinist Lodge 1406 ... |
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| Description: | Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby. |
| Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Herman "Fish" Salmon and his airplane, the "Cosmic Wind," at the 1947 National Air Races. This image is from the collection of Harry Bruno, the publicist f... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
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| Description: | Dell Hammel offering tickets for a Shriner Circus sideshow of Dancing Girls. There are good indications that this photograph has been manipulated and is a ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. (TMERL) competing a foot race at the third company outing. |
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| Description: | Circus clown, "Bumpsy" Anthony, stands in front of a tent. |
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| Description: | A clown wearing a small hat with a feather, a polka-dotted suit, and large gloves, stands near a tent. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
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