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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theatre usher, Rolland W. Hamelin, who had recently received an appointment to West Point. 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Two women model clothing. The woman on the left is wearing a wedding dress from 1946, and the other woman is wearing a Mount Mary gym suit. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Seals, janitor at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. He is standing next to a rubber tree plant and is cleaning the table. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Farmer Sam Tanaka posing with his son on a Farmall F-12 tractor in a cauliflower field. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., taken in the Governor's Office in the Wisconsin State Capitol on his Inauguration Day. |
| Date: | 08 13 1936 |
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| Description: | African American factory worker in a ragged sweater standing outside International Harvester's Osborne Works (later Auburn Works). |
| Date: | 08 06 1941 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Dyer (b.1864), right, and sound engineer Robert Draves. |
| Date: | 08 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Winifred Bundy, secretary of the School of Music at UW-Madison, and her uncle, Bill Morgan. Both recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 08 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Helene Stratman-Thomas and Dr. Charles O. Lindberg, a Swedish singer. |
| Date: | 09 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Charles Dietz, a singer of English ballads, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 05 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Hall, secretary at the Youth Hostel headquarters on the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road, near Shorewood Hills. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | The state bee inspector (probably the man on the left), and a Dane County farmer. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| Date: | 08 12 1921 |
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| Description: | An Osborne Works factory worker(?) posing to have his portrait taken in front of a vine-covered wall. |
| Date: | 10 06 1925 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker(?) from Osborne Works posing for a portrait in a wooded area. |
| 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: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Two farmers posing for an outdoor portrait sitting on the back of a Farmall Regular tractor. |
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