Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 43

Photograph

School Children Eating

Date: 1919
Description: Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t...
Photograph

Young Boy Drinking Glass of Milk

Date: 1919
Description: Young boy sitting outdoors on a chair drinking a glass of milk.
Photograph

Children Saluting the Flag

Date: 1919
Description: Miss Summers' pupils saluting as an American flag is raised outside Pleasant View School. The original caption reads: "Loyal U.S. citizens in the making."
Photograph

School Children Folk Dancing

Date: 1919
Description: School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard.
Photograph

Pupils Learning About Thrift

Date: 1919
Description: Students are raising their arms as an instructor is discussing the merits of thrift. The instructor is pointing to chalkboard illustrations of a well groom...
Photograph

Children in Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Two young girls holding up plants from a vegetable garden. Houses are in the background.
Photograph

Children Performing May-Pole Dance

Date: 1919
Description: School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance.
Photograph

Making Maple Sugar

Date: 1919
Description: A child is standing on a log lying on the ground in a clearing. There is a barrel on the left, and a campfire in the background.
Photograph

Exile into Babylon

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Jewish people dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of the flag of Israel .
Photograph

The Jewish Rebirth

Date: 1919
Description: A Jewish man, woman, and child dressed as Old Testament characters standing in front of an Israeli flag.
Photograph

Poale Zion Chasidim Ball

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Zionists organized in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Company House at Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A young boy standing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
Photograph

Company House and Family in Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
Photograph

Father and Young Sons on Farm

Date: 1919
Description: A father standing with his two young sons near a stationary engine. Many farm implements and equipment are lay in the yard.
Photograph

Father with Young Son on Farm

Date: 1919
Description: A father and young son loading corn from a wagon to a barn. A stationary engine is in the background.
Photograph

Camping at Devil's Lake

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of the Herman Taylor family camping at Devil's Lake. There is a moving train in the background on railroad tracks along the shoreline of the ...
Photograph

Children on Wagon

Date: 1919
Description: A young boy and girl are sitting in a wagon on a dirt road, while a man and woman are watching from the porch of a house in the background. The wagon is lo...
Photograph

State Line Sign & Dick Lloyd Jones

Date: 1919
Description: Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones standing on the state line sign between Wisconsin and Illinois. This picture was taken when the Lloyd Jones family moved from M...
Photograph

Leaving Chicago & "Going over to Michigan"

Date: 1919
Description: Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones on a ship, possibly the City of St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan when the Richard Lloyd Jones family was moving from Madison ...
Photograph

International Model G Truck Carrying Tractor

Date: 1919
Description: A man sits in an International model "G" truck carrying an International 8-16 tractor and other farm equipment, which is parked on a grassy hill next to a ...

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: