Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 252

Photograph

Carrie Lane

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa.
Photograph

Young Vinnie Ream Hoxie

Date: 
Description: Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie.
Photograph

Loyd Harris's Wedding Portrait

Date: 
Description: Wedding portrait of Lieutenant Loyd G. Harris, his bride and two attendants.
Photograph

John Nolen

Date: 
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of John Nolen, landscape architect.
Photograph

Mrs. Ollie Jacobs

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in a wheelchair.
Photograph

Gymnastics Team Members

Date: 
Description: Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two members of a gymnastics team taught by George A. Schaettle in Mondovi (Buffalo County), Wisconsin. Schaettle...
Photograph

William Powell

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William Powell.
Photograph

Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick, Celebrated Chippewa Chief

Date: 
Description: Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick (Hole in the Day), celebrated Chippewa (Ojibwa) chief.
Photograph

Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick, Celebrated Chippewa Chief

Date: 
Description: Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick (Hole in the Day), celebrated Chippewa (Ojibwa) chief.
Photograph

Celebrated Chippewa Chief Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick

Date: 
Description: Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick, celebrated Chippewa (Ojibwa) chief.
Photograph

Sioux Anpetu-tokeca

Date: 
Description: Anpetu-tokeca (Other Day), of the Sioux tribe, who rescued 62 people in the Massacre of 1862 in Minnesota.
Photograph

Old Bets, Sioux

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Old Bets, of the Sioux tribe. Old Bets will be remembered with gratitude by the Minnesota captives for her kindness in 1862.
Photograph

Moccasin

Date: 1885
Description: Early carte-de-visite of a Ho-Chunk man identified as Moccasin. The backdrop indicates the photograph came from Charles Van Schaick’s studio, but it may ha...
Photograph

Fred D. Grant

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Fred D. Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, at 15 years of age, standing near a chair in front of a painted backdrop dressed in ...
Photograph

Hannah Simpson

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of Hannah Simpson, mother of Ulysses S. Grant. This image is one of several on a page from the Grant family bible.
Photograph

Warren Knowles

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite of Warren Knowles of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry.
Photograph

Jerry Flint

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite of Jerry Flint of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry.
Photograph

Truman Warren

Date: 
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Truman A. Warren wearing a suit with a bow tie.
Photograph

Portrait of a Woman

Date: 1892
Description: Oval quarter-length portrait of a young woman. She is wearing a band over her ringlet curls, a dark dress with buttons down the front, a short white lacy c...
Photograph

Frank Lloyd Wright as a Young Child

Date: 1869
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright as a young child. The photograph was made in McGregor, Iowa, where Wright's father briefly served a Baptist congregation as minister af...

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: