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Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
Date: | 07 31 1947 |
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Description: | Highway lane painting truck painting lane lines on Highways 12-13-14, University Avenue between Madison and Middleton. This is the first highway in the sta... |
Date: | 08 05 1947 |
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Description: | Jonas Staley, 1510 Jenifer Street, a 73-year-old man who enjoyed working outdoors in hot weather. He is shown putting in a sewer at 4226 Beverly Road. |
Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
Date: | 07 11 1926 |
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Description: | A shovel, or excavator loads dirt into an International Model S truck. The text on the wooden cab of the shovel appears to read: "Marion Shovel - Model 21"... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | International model "F" or "31" truck carrying bags of what appears to be gravel. Two men, a driver and passenger, are sitting in the truck. In the backgr... |
Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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Description: | Five Madison city lifeguards that were assigned to prepare the Breese Stevens Field for the All Star high school football game. Left to right are: Glenn Wi... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin... |
Date: | 12 03 1948 |
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Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm pushing a load of dirt in a wheelbarrow while helping workmen excavate for a garage to be constructed at the Governor's residence,... |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Thorsten Horton nailing a post to a structure, as a member of the North South Smokey Mountain Work Camp in Tennessee. |
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