Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 20

Photograph

Monroe Palmer Octagon House

Date: 1900
Description: The Monroe Palmer Octagon house, built about 1852 at Neshonoc, Wisconsin, and moved to this site in 1890.
Photograph

Zulime Taft Garland and Mary Isabel

Date: 1903
Description: Zulime Taft Garland, wife of Hamlin Garland, holds their infant daughter Mary Isabel while sitting in a rocking chair.
Photograph

8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 11 1936
Description: H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler.
Photograph

LaCrosse Main Street

Date: 1911
Description: View down middle of unpaved Main Street. There are large trees along the sidewalk on the left. Businesses line both sides of the street, and there is a sta...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down center of Main Street with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing in the foreground. Service garages are on the left and right corners. Parke...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of street towards central business section. On the left is a building with a belfry. Cars and businesses line both sides of the street, pe...
Photograph

Electric Light Plant

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view across water of a stone building next to an earthen dam on the La Crosse River. There is an archway on the side of the building at the river ...
Photograph

Canning Factory

Date: 1911
Description: View across set of railroad tracks of a canning factory. There are a number of warehouses and outbuildings. Trees are on a hill in the background.
Photograph

Hotel May

Date: 1911
Description: View across railroad tracks and road of the front of the Hotel May. The hotel has a wrap-around porch and balcony. Men in suits are relaxing in chairs on t...
Photograph

West Salem Depot

Date: 1922
Description: View along railroad tracks of the depot, with an approaching train coming from the opposite direction. Two men stand on the platform next to the building. ...
Photograph

Memorial Park

Date: 1926
Description: View down path of Memorial Park. A pavilion in the center is surrounded by bushes and plants.
Photograph

Looking South on Main Street

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of Main Street paved with cobblestones. There is a railroad crossing at the far end, and the ridge of a hill in the far background. A barb...
Photograph

Man Cultivating Corn in Strip-Cropped Field

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a man cultivating corn in stripped-cropped field using a Farmall H tractor and HM-238 Farmall cultivator. In the bac...
Photograph

Albert Hammes and Young Helper

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Albert Hammes, of West Salem, and his young helper standing in a field spearing picked tobacco on stakes to be dried in the barn.
Photograph

Albert Hammes in his Tobacco Field

Date: 10 13 1978
Description: Slightly elevated view of Albert Hammes, smoking a cigarette and tending to his tobacco crops. The flower tops have to be picked before harvesting to keep ...
Photograph

Swarthout Lakeside Park

Date: 1955
Description: A motorboat on Lake Neshonoc is speeding toward the public landing, where there is a car parked and a small group of people has gathered. A man in a swimmi...
Postcard

Hamlin Garland Homestead

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse: "Hamlin Garland Homestead. West Salem, Wisconsin. Purchased by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Hamlin Garland in 1893 for his parents, the ...
Postcard

Maple Grove Country Club

Date: 07 10 1970
Description: Text on front reads: "Maple Grove Country Club. West Salem, Wis. Built in 1928. Wisconsin's sportiest and most natural 18 hole golf course in the beautiful...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "High School, West Salem, Wis." A two-story, brick high school with arched windows and a belfry. It is surrounded by a lawn and trees.
Postcard

Neshonoc Falls

Date: 01 13 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Neshonoc Falls, West Salem, Wis." The Neshonoc Dam, powerhouse and spillway on the La Crosse River. The powerhouse was built after 18...

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: