Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of WHS Museum Collection
Filter: Subject of dwellings
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Waist-up portrait of "Cothren, Montgomery Morrison (Sept. 18, 1819-Oct. 2, 1888), lawyer, politician, judge, b. Jerusalem, N.Y. He moved with his parents t... |
| Date: | 1843 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of Ellen Clarinda Martin Kneeland. |
| Date: | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1833 |
|---|---|
| Description: | "Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher (Feb. 8, 1795-Nov. 2, 1864), lawyer, politician, U.S. Senator from N.Y., territorial governor of Wisconsin, b. Chatham, N.Y. ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Yellow Thunder , noted warrior, and chief of the Winnebagoes (Ho-Chunk). |
| Date: | 1973 |
|---|---|
| Description: | John Muir's desk clock. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to study. At the end of half an hour it changed the book. The... |
| Date: | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
| Date: | 1842 |
|---|---|
| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting of the Peck Cabin representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The "Peck Cabin" is a variation signed "M... |
| Date: | 1837 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | In 1938 Life magazine invited notable architects to design "dream homes" for four American families, each at a different income level. Each family w... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July. |
| Date: | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:
