Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 22

Photograph

Main Street in New Glarus

Date: 1877
Description: View from hill down the unpaved main street. There is a man and two women standing in front of a fence and house across the street on the right.
Photograph

Women and Children in New Glarus

Date: 1874
Description: View of the town which was founded by Swiss settlers in 1845. A group of women and children stands in front of a fence at 130 5th Avenue, the Gabriel Schi...
Photograph

Bachman House

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: The Bachman house, built around 1855, on the corner of Merchant and Emerson Streets.
Photograph

Jennings Home

Date: 11 03 1926
Description: The Jennings residence.
Photograph

Mordecai Kelly Log Cabin

Date: 1945
Description: The Mordecai Kelly log cabin on Highway 11. The cabin was built on Mordecai Kelly's 160-acre farm in the late 1840's.
Photograph

Mordecai Kelly Log Cabin

Date: 1945
Description: Exterior of the Mordecai Kelly log cabin, built by Mordecai himself in the late 1840's. The article attached to the photograph reads: "The aging tree stand...
Postcard

Ludlow House

Date: 12 1958
Description: The Ludlow house, home of Arabut Ludlow and his family.
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1930
Description: The Octagon House was built by General Francis Henry West. The photograph was taken late in 1930 and it shows the original "carpenter's lace" and other por...
Photograph

Waldecker House

Date: 05 15 1928
Description: The Waldecker house, built by Mr. Gruenewalt in about 1853, at the corner of Jackson and Merchant Streets (120 Merchant Street). People are standing just i...
Photograph

New Glarus House

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: The New Glarus chalet home of Ernest Thierstein. It is an example of authentic Bernese architecture of canton Bern in Switzerland.
Photograph

Modern House

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: Exterior view of Modern house built for the Howard Steinmann family.
Photograph

Prairie House

Date: 1925
Description: Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w...
Photograph

Tavern at Exeter

Date: 1925
Description: A wooden, two-story saltbox style building in an advanced state of neglect.
Photograph

Leo Scheberle Residence

Date: 10 28 1953
Description: Interior view of the den and recreation room in the residence of Leo Scheberle. The room features a fireplace, wood paneling, and shag carpeting.
Photograph

A Pretty Residence Street

Date: 1917
Description: View down middle of a wide dirt road in a residential area. Trees line both sides of the street along the sidewalks.
Photograph

Residential Street

Date: 
Description: View down a tree-lined dirt road in a residential area. A car is parked at the curb in the distance.
Photograph

Bridge and Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a stream with a dam and a bridge. There is a small fenced garden along the water. In the distance is a hillside with houses.
Photograph

Selma Eidsmoe and Her Mother

Date: 1935
Description: Selma Eismoe, the teacher at Farmer's Grove School, poses with her mother, Mrs. H.O. Eidsmoe. Mrs. Eidsmoe stands on concrete porch steps. A curtain blows ...
Photograph

Elda Strahm

Date: 1935
Description: Elda Strahm, 13, poses outside her home with many prize ribbons which she won at the Green County and Wisconsin State Fairs. Another girl stands on the lef...
Photograph

Broken Star Quilt

Date: 1931
Description: A quilt made by Elda Strahm, a student at Farmer's Grove School, town of York and New Glarus, is displayed hanging outdoors on a clothes line. There is a ...

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: