Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FULL_DATE of 1857
Filter: Subject of intellectual life
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office. This was the first newspaper published in Wisconsin. The building was on Main Street. This drawing appeared in an... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Certificate signed by La Fayette Kellogg admitting George E. Bryant to practice law before the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. The certificate bears the seal ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Membership certificate of the Athenaen Society of the University of Wisconsin presented to Charles Fairchild in 1857. The society was a student literary an... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Handbill containing directions for putting together and operating McCormick's "Reaping and Mowing Machine" [reaper]. Includes illustrations of the machine. |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Plat map of Kekoskee, Wisconsin. Kekoskee is a village in Dodge County, in the Beaver Dam metropolitan area. The community name derives from Indian term fo... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Raja Radhakant Deva Bahadoor (1783-1867), Indian scholar and author. Best known for writing the Sanskrik Encyclopedia, Sabdakalpadruma (... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | This manuscript map is ink and watercolor on tracing cloth and shows bridges, lots, and streets. Some of the lots are in pink ink. The left of the map incl... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A certificate acknowledging the admission of Frederick Beermein to Sons of Temperance. |
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: