Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 37

Photograph

Tower Foundation

Date: 1898
Description: View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f...
Photograph

Jones Island

Date: 1912
Description: A fishing settlement. Small buildings and boats line a bay, with sand and a piece of driftwood in the foreground.
Photograph

Man on Plow

Date: 
Description: Man sitting on plow driven by a tractor.
Photograph

Man Sitting on thresher behind Tractor

Date: 
Description: Man sitting behind a La Crosse tractor on a thresher.
Photograph

Three Men Atop a Large Rock Formation

Date: 
Description: Three men stand atop a large rock formation. Caption on back of stereograph reads, "Three Chimneys 3 miles S. of Viroqua, Wis."
Photograph

Katherine Quinney

Date: 
Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney, Richard Quinney's great aunt, standing on the shore of Lake Michigan with a ship in the background.
Photograph

Swimming at Delavan Lake

Date: 1920
Description: Swimmers posing for a portrait in Delavan Lake.
Photograph

Clamming Boats

Date: 
Description: View from water of clamming boats near shoreline.
Photograph

Sheldon House Hotel

Date: 
Description: A view of the open-air pavilion at Sheldon House Hotel. The pavilion stands in a wooded area with mountains visible in the distance. A set of wooden stairs...
Photograph

North Shore of Devil's Lake

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the north end of Devil's Lake and Cliff House. A number of buildings are around the shoreline with railroad tracks in the foreground. A lo...
Photograph

Devil's Lake Shoreline

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of Devil's Lake with the far shoreline in the background.
Photograph

View of Devil's Lake from top of Bluffs

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Devil's Lake from the top of the bluffs, talus slope visible on right.
Photograph

View of Devil's Lake from top of Bluffs

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Devil's Lake from the top of the bluffs, talus slope visible on right.
Photograph

Film Still of Movie Poster for "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Movie poster using a heavily retouched film still for "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y,'" a western genre film. Shown is actor Roy Stewart playing Calumet Marston ...
Photograph

Woman Digging in a Sand Pit

Date: 
Description: A woman, Grace, digs in the sand as she kneels in a sand pit near the intersection of Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street. A note on the back of the photogr...
Photograph

Women in a Sand Pit

Date: 
Description: Florance Trask poses standing in a sand pit located near the intersection of Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street. Another woman, Grace, can be seen digging ...
Photograph

Woman Posing in a Sand Pit

Date: 
Description: A woman, Grace, smiles as she poses while standing in a sand pit near the intersection of Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street. A note on the back of the pho...
Photograph

Woman Seated on Stone Wall

Date: 
Description: A young woman (possibly one of the O'Dea sisters) sits on the stone wall surrounding the edge of a pond. She is wearing a skirt, blouse, sweater, stockings...
Photograph

Tour of Apostles with JFK, Gaylord Nelson and John Reynolds

Date: 1963
Description: Gaylord Nelson, John F. Kennedy, and John Reynolds on the 1963 tour of the Apostle Islands. There is a U.S. Army helicopter in the background.
Photograph

Downtown Automobile Race

Date: 07 04 1911
Description: Elevated view looking towards sidewalk and street of a crowd looking at automobiles lined up for a downtown race. According to Alan Picha of the Hillsboro ...

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: