Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites!
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Subject of dwellings
Filter: Subject of human settlements
| Date: | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View down dirt road towards the Lappley Bros. Lumber Yard. There are houses on the right and in the far background. There are horses and carriages parked a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Description: | International Harvester Model S truck with delivery body, Pacifico and Petlovany Bakery. |
| Date: | 07 23 1931 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Capital Times model home under construction at 2318 Monroe Street. |
| Date: | 1970 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
| Date: | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cameraman and sound operator from Paramount Sound News on top of a truck filming a demonstration of the McCormick-Deering O-12 radio-controlled tractor and... |
| Date: | 10 30 1968 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
| Date: | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | International Harvester tractor (likely a friction drive) running a belt-driven husker-shredder in the snow-covered yard of a farm. |
| Date: | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba... |
| Date: | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 07 11 1981 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Scenic view of rural farmstead with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder and wagon in field in front of farmhouse. |
| Date: | 11 05 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Lone picketer from Painters' Local 781 protests against workers not receiving union wages, hours, and benefits. |
| Date: | 09 20 1928 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stream of factory workers leaving International Harvester's McCormick Works. A sign along the front of the factory reads: "'Quality is the Foundation of ou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | European farmers and young boy harvesting grain with horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field in front of a large mansion or institutional complex. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men, women and children dig and rake the soil at the Deering Works employee gardens. The gardens appear to be located in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Man using a Mogul 10-20(?) tractor with attached plow to plow garden lots in an urban residential neighborhood at Jackson Blvd. and 54th Street. "This outf... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: