Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 248

Photograph

Spencer Tracy in Sailor Hat

Date: 1918
Description: Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I.
Postcard

WWI Pilot

Date: 1918
Description: John Kaminski of Milwaukee in his World War I pilot's uniform.
Photograph

WWI Ace

Date: 1918
Description: Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ...
Photograph

General Mitchell in the Cockpit

Date: 1918
Description: General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane.
Photograph

Balloon Gondola

Date: 1918
Description: The gondola crew of a World War I observation balloon that is about to ascend. Observation balloons were positioned near the front so that men in the gondo...
Photograph

Vernon Castle and his Monkey Jeffrey

Date: 1918
Description: Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron...
Photograph

Sopwith Camels

Date: 1918
Description: Two Sopwith Camels, somewhere in France. This image is from the photo collection of Alvin Reis of Madison. He made many wartime photos into lantern slides ...
Photograph

Alvin Reis

Date: 1918
Description: A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b...
Photograph

Philip La Follette in the Army

Date: 1918
Description: Philip La Follette (right), doing paperwork while in the Army during the First World War, 1918. He was a Second Lieutenant infantry instructor in Oklahoma.
Photograph

Cyrus McCormick III in Uniform with Nettie McCormick

Date: 1918
Description: Lieutenant Cyrus McCormick III (1890-1970), in uniform, poses with his grandmother Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) at Walden, the Lake Forest estate of...
Photograph

Zincographic Equipment

Date: 1918
Description: Army engineers at Camp Curtiss, demonstrating zincographic equipment. Zincography was a form of printing for large maps using zinc plates.
Photograph

Pershing and the Troops

Date: 1918
Description: General Pershing inspecting troops in France. Victor Morris, in whose wartime album this photograph appears, may have been the photographer. He identified...
Photograph

Black Soldiers' Chow Line

Date: 1918
Description: Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard.
Photograph

Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
Photograph

Black Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer.
Photograph

World War I Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: Colonel Joseph W. Jackson, formerly of Madison, Wisconsin, and Williston, North Dakota, salutes a woman in civilian dress at Camp Lewis. Jackson was an of...
Photograph

Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
Poster

For Your Boy

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th...
Photograph

Eating at the Front

Date: 1918
Description: Infantry men receiving food in outpost, Front Line on Piave Front, Italy.
Photograph

Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re...

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: