Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 21-40 of 43

Photograph

Residential Neighborhood near Mountain

Date: 01 06 1919
Description: Residential neighborhood. Caption reads: "Building Site East". Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in t...
Photograph

Flooded Rural Road in Alabama

Date: 03 05 1915
Description: Three men are driving on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "In going from Fairhope, Ala. to Point Clear, Ala. the road in many places was found...
Photograph

Flooded Road in Rural Alabama

Date: 02 13 1915
Description: Two men traveling in a horse-drawn wagon on a flooded rural road. Original caption reads: "Example of road building in Lamar County on the Vernon-Columbus ...
Photograph

Dairy Department

Date: 1915
Description: Max Ballard at the separator and Harvie Connell churning in the dairy department of the Pickens County High School.
Photograph

Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
Photograph

Man Looking Through Electro File

Date: 04 1925
Description: Mr. Priestman standing on a ladder, looking through the "electro file."
Photograph

Two Men Sifting Compost for a Garden

Date: 06 1923
Description: Two men sifting compost soil through a screen.
Photograph

Working with a Compost Pile

Date: 06 1923
Description: A man cutting down a compost pile with a shovel.
Photograph

Boy with Tin Cans

Date: 1915
Description: A boy is standing behind a box of tin cans waiting to be carted to the dump. The boy is holding tin cans hanging from string in his hand.
Photograph

Water Pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: Two men use a Fairway tractor to power a water pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club. The pump appears to be filling an irrigation trough.
Photograph

Tractor with Street Broom

Date: 05 02 1933
Description: An International industrial tractor with a street sweeping attachment sweeping the roads at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair.
Photograph

Winding Stream

Date: 1933
Description: A landscape view of a winding stream and surrounding croplands. A barn and silo are in the distance.
Photograph

Industrial Tractor with Duplex Grader

Date: 06 16 1925
Description: A man stands while operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor and an International duplex grader to smooth a rural dirt road. The original capt...
Photograph

Twin Silos

Date: 10 1923
Description: A man is filling one of two silos near a barn with silage from nearby wagon on the Babson Farm. A tractor in the foreground is used to power what appears t...
Photograph

Students Making a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two young boys on the floor of a room, probably a classroom, nailing mesh screening to the frame of their fly trap.
Photograph

Industry Supported by Capital and Labor

Date: 11 10 1933
Description: Cartoon depicting "Industry" (the world) held up by two arms labeled "Capital" and "Labor."
Photograph

Child in a Yard

Date: 1921
Description: Smiling young girl standing in a yard holding fabric, perhaps an apron.
Photograph

Courtland Hotel Interior

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view down a hallway at the Courtland Hotel. The walls are covered with peeling wallpaper and the floor is made of patterned tile. The hotel was us...
Photograph

International Bus

Date: 1932
Description: Man in driver's seat of an International bus parked in front of a building with a tower.
Photograph

Pyramid of Canned Goods

Date: 02 15 1915
Description: A pyramid of stacked canned goods at an Alabama store. Original caption reads: "The people of Alabama are artistically inclined as evidenced by the car loa...

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: