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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| 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: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a stack of Boston Herald newspapers from an International C-series truck parked along the curb in the downtown Boston area at Boston Common.... |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 04 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Joseph M. Boyd Co. booth at home show, set up as an office with a sign that reads: "Let us finance the building of your home." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of lower University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with demolition of buildings on both sides of the Armory-Gymnasium to make space for future pla... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An International Auto Wagon with a rear compartment containing shelves of books is parked outside a library. A man is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ... |
| Date: | 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Joseph W. Jackson (Col. Bud), executive director of the Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, standing next to a map of the isthmus. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Emigranten Office at King and Webster Streets. The Emigranten was published here in the 1850s and 1860s. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of the H.W. Youmans Waukesha Freeman newspaper office. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Waukesha Freeman building, where an abolition paper was published in the 1850's. |
| Date: | 05 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Augusta Giddings signs documents, with Mayor Halsey Kreage as a witness, selling her property at the eastern end of the 900 block of East Gorham Stree... |
| Date: | 03 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping showing the demolishing of the Long House. The man on the right is believed to be M.V. Adkins, son of Chester Adkins, the last survivor ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Johnson Wax Company building. |
| Date: | 05 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
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