Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FORMAT_DIMENSIONS of 5 x 8 inches
| Date: | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of postmaster general John Gronouski. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Holiday card from Jane M. Byrne, mayor of Chicago, 1979-1983. The card is a reproduction of a stained glass window with a string attached so it can be hung... |
| Date: | 04 12 1899 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, as Governor of New York, to Anita McCormick Blaine. Roosevelt expresses regret at "missing a chance to see you" and her son... |
| Date: | 02 26 1931 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Newspaper clipping of an article about the end of Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary Association, a group that had been trying to preserve Frost's Woods. |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Advertisement for the "crown cork" bottle cap showing several of the now familiar crimped top caps, and stressing the cleanliness and sanitary nature of th... |
| Date: | 02 29 1968 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Robert Tehan in a suit and necktie. |
| Date: | 11 06 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Interior of dinner menu for Special Train enroute from St. Louis, Missouri, to Brownsville, Texas, with an oval portrait of President-Elect Warren G. Hardi... |
| Date: | 06 08 1895 |
|---|---|
| Description: | One-page card menu, possibly from the restaurant in the Hotel Pfister. At the top left is an embossed crest with the Latin greeting "Salve" ("Welcome") sur... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | University of Wisconsin heating plant, with two tall chimney stacks. Electric lines are in the foreground. There are trees on a hill on the left. On the ri... |
| Date: | 12 1930 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three-quarter length, seated portrait of Mrs. Edward Petersen with her grandson, William Otto Petersen (1926-2012). Mrs. Petersen is wearing a dress with l... |
| Date: | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | William O. Petersen, in a costume (Tracht) of Bavarian or Tyrolean style, poses seated on a bench with his arm around a small dog. He is wearing short lede... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posing standing. She has her hands on the back of a chair and is we... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across unpaved street towards a two-story wood frame house. Two woman and three children are posing, with a woman and child at the fence surrounding t... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Davison Bradford. She was the first women in Wisconsin to serve as a superintendent of schools. She served in Kenosha from 1910-1... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed vignetted portrait of Jeremiah Rusk. He has a long beard and a moustache. Rusk's signature is reproduced below the portrait. |
| Date: | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are... |
| Date: | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Illustration of Father Florimond Bonduel baptizing a Menominee woman named Nakam by pouring water from a clam shell onto her head. The woman is kneeling at... |
| Date: | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A page of Menominee Indian music as transcribed by Father Florimond Bonduel. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Chief Albert Yellow Thunder, Sr., standing in semi-profile, holding a peace pipe and wearing Native American ceremonial clothing. In the right foreground i... |
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: