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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of boarders, all railroad shop workers, sitting on the front porch at Mrs. Armour's boarding house. Left to right are: Bill Salsig, Roy Mart... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
| Date: | 03 31 1905 |
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| Description: | An unidentified Falk employee stands next to a large Steel Spur Gear. The sign in the photograph reads: "Cast Steel Spur Gear. Made by The Falk Co. Milwauk... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of Potosi Brewery employees inside the brewery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger crane design with cab-operated dial controls. The stencil on the crane says "Pawling and Harnischfeger ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling & Harnischfeger standard crane in a machine shop with a type "N" bridge and a type "A" trolley. There is an operator in t... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Pawling & Harnischfeger hoist cranes in a Schlitz brewery where men are working with beer barrels. |
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| Description: | Pawling and Harnischfeger traveling electric monorail hoist carrying a piece of equipment at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. There's an operator in th... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton transfer crane with two 3-ton monorail hoists. The hoist on the left has an electromagnetic unit, and the one on the right ha... |
| Date: | 04 29 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered mobile dragline with a horizontal trench digger in the background. A large group of men are standing and posing on... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across room of tanks and a Pawling & Harnischfeger type "GN" low overhead crane in a tanning operation. Men are standing on the left towards the back ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of male printers, hand-setting type in the workroom at J.H. Yewdale Printing Company. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Ideal Body Company sitting in and around a car. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Three Ideal Body Company employees standing on and around a car. Possibly in the Ideal Body Company shop on Park Street. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior elevated view of an Allis Chalmers factory. Men are posing on the factory floor. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of two men working in a cellar full of wooden barrels filled with fermenting beer. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n... |
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| Description: | A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build... |
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| Description: | Straight-on standing portrait of a Gisholt laborer in work apron, suspenders, boots and brimmed hat. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, he is standing wi... |
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