Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 22

Photograph

Reluctant Cows at Fairgrounds

Date: 07 16 1971
Description: Bette Brown of Hartland pulls her somewhat reluctant cows across the midway at the Waukesha County Fairgrounds.
Photograph

Mendota Gardeners Club Christmas Flower Show

Date: 12 09 1956
Description: Mendota Gardeners Club Christmas flower displays at the Sherman Avenue Methodist Church, 3705 North Sherman Avenue.
Photograph

Livestock Exposition Shampoo

Date: 1959
Description: Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging.
Photograph

Sheep Competition Winner

Date: 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, posing with a young winner in the lamb and sheep competition at a junior livestock exposition. Joan went on to become Miss W...
Photograph

Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...
Photograph

Alice and the Winner

Date: 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w...
Photograph

Lamb Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Lamb judging at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition.
Photograph

Livestock Judging

Date: 09 1953
Description: A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition.
Photograph

Alice and the Winner

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire.
Photograph

Farmall Demonstration at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 18 1933
Description: Two men are operating Farmall tractors and implements at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. One tractor is pulling a disk harrow, and the other a cu...
Photograph

Blaney Farms 4-H Booth

Date: 07 30 1948
Description: Blaney Farms 4-H booth with display: "Fight Weed Thieves." Three young women and one young man are shown with a display of farm products. They are all hold...
Photograph

Salad Exhibit Prepared by Carson Gulley's Class

Date: 01 24 1949
Description: Close-up of a salad exhibit. Includes a pickled fish mold surrounded with deviled eggs and parsley prepared by Carson Gulley's cooking class.
Photograph

Judging at Apple Show

Date: 1910
Description: Two men pose while several others judge apples from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, at the national apple show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A...
Photograph

Guernsey Cow Exhibition

Date: 
Description: A Guernsey cow exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, New York. Milking equipment is being used on the cows, who stand in a circular paddock...
Photograph

Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Potatoes from all over the state are displayed at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Ihir Birjandr, a grad...
Photograph

Little International Stock Show Pig Contest

Date: 03 02 1952
Description: Two girls subdue a piglet by tying its feet together as two judges wearing suits and holding stop watches look on. Other contest participants and spectator...
Photograph

Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 26 1952
Description: Olson youth with his calf at the Dane County Junior Fair.
Photograph

Farmer's Museum Mail Wagon Exhibit

Date: 
Description: A mailman in a horse-drawn mail wagon makes a delivery to a man standing beside him in an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum.
Photograph

Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show

Date: 
Description: A group of teenagers lounge about on bales of hay in a barn at the Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show. Cows are resting nearby on the right.
Photograph

Youth Display Sheep

Date: 08 1948
Description: Elevated view of a number of young boys, and one girl, each crouched next to a sheep, displaying it to the crowd gathered around a pen at the Wisconsin Cen...

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: