Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 38

Photograph

Concrete Block House

Date: 1910
Description: Six men in work clothes posing near a porch of a house under construction. Hollow core concrete blocks, most likely manufactured on site with local sand an...
Photograph

Saw Rig at Kearns

Date: 1910
Description: Six men and two boys are posing near a portable saw mill. There is a steam tractor at left, with a long belt driving a large circular saw blade at right, w...
Photograph

On the Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line. The caption on the negative envelope states: ...
Photograph

Will Mowing the Lawn

Date: 05 14 1905
Description: Will von der Sump, wearing work clothes and a hat, is pushing a reel lawn mower in front of a low fence near shrubs. There is a wooded hill in the backgrou...
Photograph

Under the Apple Tree

Date: 05 19 1905
Description: Mae (Margaret) von der Sump is holding a branch of blossoms as she poses with her mother, Bertha, and father Frank under an apple tree in full bloom. There...
Photograph

Threshing

Date: 1910
Description: A man at far left, possibly Frank von der Sump, is posing with his elbow resting on a steam tractor. A belt from the tractor is powering a threshing machin...
Photograph

Saw Rig

Date: 1910
Description: Five men and a boy are posing around a portable sawmill. There is a steam tractor at far left. A large belt is running from the tractor to drive the blade ...
Photograph

Successful Hunt

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump, left, and his brother Fred are posing holding a brace of six rabbits on a stick between them. Each man is holding a shotgun and there is...
Photograph

Hunting

Date: 12 21 1904
Description: Will von der Sump, center, is standing with two other men identified as Frank and August, in front of a large tree in an open wooded area. The men are hold...
Photograph

Group at Ed Kearns

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of seven adults and nine children, including two infants, posing sitting and standing under a tree near the open door of a two-story wood fr...
Photograph

Kusick Family

Date: 1905
Description: A man and woman, most likely Valentine and Elizabeth Kusick, are sitting on their porch steps. They are flanked by two men standing on the lawn, and there ...
Photograph

Foundation

Date: 1905
Description: Two men holding trowels are standing on an improvised scaffold made of wooden kegs and planks while working on a cement block foundation wall. Two other me...
Photograph

New House

Date: 1905
Description: Three men, identified on the negative envelope as "Mr. Miller, Boots, and Lavine," are posing on the roof of a large two-story cement block house under con...
Photograph

Threshing Outfit and Crew

Date: 09 15 1904
Description: Thirteen men take time from threshing duties to pose for a group portrait with a team of horses, threshing machine with straw elevator, and a steam tractor...
Photograph

Robicheau's Threshing Outfit

Date: 1904
Description: A man at left is standing and holding the reins of a four horse hitch, while three other men are posing between a steam tractor and threshing machine. Ther...
Photograph

Will's Saw Outfit

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump, second from left, is watching as two men guide a log into the circular saw blade of a portable sawmill. A steam engine at left powers th...
Photograph

Corn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Rear view towards left side of an unidentified man driving a three-abreast team of horses hitched to a mechanical corn binder. There is a wooded hill in th...
Photograph

Steam Tractor and Huller

Date: 1905
Description: A man in bib overalls is standing on the rear of a steam tractor which is hitched to a mechanical huller. Behind the tractor is a wagon full of firewood dr...
Photograph

Plowing

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump driving a team of four horses from the seat of what appears to be a single bottom sulky plow. He is in a large field on his family's farm...
Photograph

Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ...

Have Questions?

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: