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| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Clyde Allen Lee (left), who grew up in Larsen, Wisconsin, and John Bochkon, a last-minute passenger, before they took off to attempt a trans-Atlantic fligh... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co.... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | House built by Benjamin Church in 1844. Restored, it stands in Estabrook Park. Two men near front porch, from left to right: Frederic Heath, President of... |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Nelson casually talks with two farmers outdoors in front of a cow pen. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 167 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed by the Swift Company in South St. Paul signing up for strike duty. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Journalist Cedric Belfrage, a co-founder of the "National Guardian," a weekly progressive newspaper. Belfrage, a British national, was later deported for h... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" visiting with China philosophers in Peking. Belfrage was the first western correspondent to visit mainland China... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith, who covered the presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon for United Press International, in a characteristic reporter's pose in front of a typewr... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
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