Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 109

Photograph

Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
Photograph

Ouija Board and Chemistry Set

Date: 2003
Description: Ouija board and chemistry set in the Quinney farmhouse attic.
Photograph

Customers in General Store

Date: 1939
Description: Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a...
Photograph

Putnam Catholic Academy

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of a science room at Putnam Catholic Academy, looking out over the desks toward the back of the classroom. In the back is a large gl...
Photograph

Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Weighing Cheese Curds

Date: 
Description: The finished cheese curds are weighed and poured into forms to make a 40 pound block of cheese.
Photograph

School Trip To Forest Products Laboratory

Date: 1951
Description: Richard Quinney took this photograph with his own camera while in high school, at Delavan High School. It was a trip to the Forest Products Laboratory, at ...
Photograph

Hematite Fan

Date: 11 12 2013
Description: A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci...
Photograph

Hematite Fan

Date: 11 12 2013
Description: A hematite fan, approximately six inches in length, from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. This speci...
Photograph

Azurite Malachite Nodule

Date: 11 12 2013
Description: A cut and polished azurite malachite nodule from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. Azurite and malach...
Photograph

Emerald in Matrix

Date: 11 12 2013
Description: A specimen of emerald in matrix from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum.
Photograph

Dogtooth Calcite

Date: 11 12 2013
Description: A dogtooth calcite specimen from the mineral collection of Ferdinand Hotz at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum. The specimen is approximately thre...
Photograph

The Skeleton of the Schooner Advance

Date: 2015
Description: Underwater view of algae and mussels covering the wood skeletal frame of the Advance, a schooner built in 1853 and sunk in 1885. Most of the frame i...
Photograph

The Schooner Advance

Date: 2014
Description: Underwater view of pieces of the schooner Advance laying on the haul of the ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Photograph

The Stern of the Schooner Home

Date: 2008
Description: Underwater view of the stern of the schooner Home resting on the bottom of Lake Michigan. One of the masts is broken and is bending over the port si...
Photograph

The Bow of the Schooner Home

Date: 06 12 2008
Description: Underwater view of the bow of the schooner Home. The port anchor is hanging along the port side of the ship. The bowsprit is laying on the lake bed ...
Photograph

The Deck of the Schooner Home

Date: 06 12 2008
Description: Underwater view of the deck of the schooner Home, taken from the port side near the bow. The structure in the center of the deck is the centerboard ...
Photograph

Collision Damage on the Schooner Home

Date: 06 22 2015
Description: Underwater view of the starboard side of the bow of the schooner Home, the site of the collision damage that sank the ship. The sampson post and win...
Photograph

The Port Anchor of the Schooner Home

Date: 09 28 2005
Description: Underwater view of the port anchor on the schooner Home. The anchor and chain are resting against the port side of the ship near the bow, partially ...
Photograph

Deck of the Schooner Home

Date: 06 02 2015
Description: Underwater view of the deck of the schooner Home, taken from the bow.
Photograph

Measuring the Remains of the Schooner Home

Date: 09 09 2008
Description: Underwater view of a scuba diver (an underwater archaeologist) shining a light on two liquor or water jugs that had been pulled out during the archaeologic...

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: