Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-19 of 19

Photograph

Three Deer Hunters

Date: 10 10 1943
Description: Hunters Harold Vandervort, Tom Massengase, and John Voell pose with deer carcass. Original caption reads: "Deer taken by John R. Voell, 226 Bank St., Fond ...
Photograph

Man Playing a 'Butterfly' Cornet

Date: 
Description: A man standing outdoors and playing a E flat 'Butterfly' cornet. Next to him is a table with two bugles on it.
Photograph

George J. Gunther

Date: 
Description: George J. Gunther in a apiary with a swarm of bees covering his left arm.
Print

Cigar Maker Ad

Date: 
Description: Trade card of H. Rolfs Cigar Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee advertising their Golden Horn cigars. The card depicts a cartoon-like drummer with the caption:...
Photograph

Totem Pole in Peninsula State Park

Date: 1930
Description: A totem pole erected in 1927 in honor of the aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin. Potawatomi chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-November 27, 1930), an ...
Photograph

Philleo Nash

Date: 1951
Description: Philleo Nash, Wisconsin Rapids cranberry grower, Democratic Party leader, and lieutenant governor, 1959-1961. From 1946 to 1952 he was a special assistant ...
Print

Railroad Mail Delivery

Date: 1876
Description: Railroad advertising card showing a mail carrier on horseback on a plank road in 1776, and mail being delivered by train in 1876. A woman with two children...
Photograph

Union Contract Signing

Date: 
Description: S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company.
Photograph

Captain Henry Dillion

Date: 
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Henry Dillon, 6th Battery, 6th Wisconsin Light Artillery, in military uniform.
Photograph

Charles Stewart

Date: 1861
Description: Seated portrait of Corporal Charles Stewart (b. 1832), Company B, 8th Wisconsin Infantry, wearing the one of the grey uniforms in which Wisconsin's first e...
Photograph

Silas Stewart

Date: 
Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Silas Stewart, Company B, 8th Wisconsin Infantry. Stewart enlisted in 1861 and served until the end of the war without b...
Photograph

Baker Tower

Date: 11 01 1929
Description: View of two men on the ladder of the tower. Annotation on the back reads: "Baker tower, semi-closed, used later."
Print

Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t...
Photograph

Edwin E. Bryant

Date: 
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Edwin Bryant wearing a Civil War uniform.
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo

Date: 12 1914
Description: A seated head and shoulders studio portrait of Lake Mills businessman Frank B. Fargo at age 68. He is wearing a suit with vest and necktie with stickpin. T...
Photograph

Fred Mero Hunter

Date: 1958
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing eyeglasses, and a suit and tie. This is Fred Mero Hunter, a farmer in Burnett county, in the area that would l...
Photograph

Gathered around the Islander Flag

Date: 07 26 1918
Description: Most of the Lucy and W.A. Holt family are gathered around the Islander flag, which appears to be new. All of the children are present except Alfred Holt. T...
Photograph

Raising the Flag at Grandfather's House

Date: 07 04 1912
Description: At the home of Civil War Captain Israel Parsons Rumsey, the group is raising the American flag on Independence Day. Names from left to right: Lucy Rumsey H...
Photograph

Edward Alsworth Ross on Canoe Trip

Date: 1920
Description: UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross posing on a river bank. He is wearing a hat and backpack, and is holding a bedroll and has a pipe in hi...

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: