Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 201-220 of 383

Photograph

Woman using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The t...
Photograph

Thatched Housing

Date: 1910
Description: Log and thatched homes. In a number of her journals, Carrie describes the conditions of housing. Many countries at the time still utilized thatched houses ...
Photograph

Group of Children

Date: 1910
Description: A group of children gathered on a rock. There is a mountain in the background. Carrie describes in multiple journals that children were rarely fully clothe...
Photograph

Two Girls

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of two girls. Both are unclothed except for a strip of fabric around their waist tied with a bundle of leaves. In her journal, Carrie describes Ce...
Photograph

Group of People with Pottery

Date: 1910
Description: Group of people sitting on the ground outside of a thatched house with pottery.
Photograph

Village

Date: 1910
Description: View across field towards a fenced village of elevated, thatched buildings.
Photograph

People Working in a Field

Date: 1910
Description: People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food.
Photograph

Man and Woman in Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Ceylon Carrie records: "Both men and women wear a sort of skirt made of a straight piece of cloth wound around the body." Here, a man i...
Photograph

Women and Girls

Date: 1910
Description: During her travels, Carrie wrote about the conditions of women in the area, including their literacy, social status, working conditions, and ownership righ...
Photograph

Woman in Carriage

Date: 
Description: An unidentified woman posing while sitting and looking through the open back of a carriage on a road.
Photograph

Boys Marching with "Guns"

Date: 1906
Description: Boys marching down a neighborhood street with toy guns. The leader is carrying a big stick. A boy in the back is carrying a flag.
Photograph

Trees and a Pond

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of a pond. Trees are reflected in the water.
Photograph

Cows In a Stream

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of a small group of cattle standing in a stream drinking water. There are trees and shrubs are along the opposite shoreline.
Photograph

Rocky Hillside

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a hillside with trees, plants and grass, and a partially exposed face of eroded rock.
Photograph

Lake View

Date: 
Description: View of lake through trees along a shoreline. A ship is in the distance along the horizon.
Photograph

Road in Autumn

Date: 
Description: View down rural road lined with trees and rocks. The leaves have turned to autumn colors. There is a fence along the road on the right.
Photograph

Road Through a Forest

Date: 
Description: View from side of tree-lined road towards a gate in a stone wall further down on the right.
Photograph

Bluffs on Shoreline

Date: 
Description: View across lake towards steep bluffs. Trees are growing along the shoreline and on the top of the bluffs. At the base of the cliffs in the center is a sca...
Photograph

A Bench Near a Lake

Date: 
Description: A wooden bench at the top of a slope overlooking a lake. A wooded shoreline is in the far distance.
Photograph

Tree Canopy

Date: 
Description: View down center of a dirt path of a tree canopy.

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: