Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 38

Photograph

Milkman Making Delivery from International Model M-2 Milk Truck

Date: 12 12 1933
Description: Milkman delivering a bottle of milk to a woman at her residential home. Parked in the foreground along a curb is an International Model M-2 milk truck owne...
Photograph

International C-1 Delivery Truck in front of Grocery Store

Date: 08 20 1935
Description: Two men standing outside Gray's Market behind an International C-1 delivery truck owned by Hormel Fine Foods. One man is wearing an apron and holding a can...
Photograph

Burdick & Murray Display Window

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Thanksgiving dining room display window at Burdick & Murray, 15-19 East Main Street. Featuring a mannequin wearing a dress and an apron, linens, china, cry...
Photograph

Madison Dairy Produce Buildings

Date: 06 15 1927
Description: View across street towards the Madison Dairy Produce Building, with employees standing on the sidewalk in front of the building. Located at 1018 East Washi...
Photograph

Storefront Portrait

Date: 1898
Description: Two well-dressed women in aprons and two smartly dressed men pose in front of the open entrance of J. Buntman's fruit and confectionery store at 1005 North...
Photograph

Polperro House and Woman

Date: 1940
Description: A woman demonstrating how Shake Rag Street got its name, with the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, behind her. The house was temporarily co...
Photograph

Couple Standing on Boardwalk

Date: 
Description: Couple standing on boardwalk.
Photograph

Business Section

Date: 1929
Description: View across street of the business section. On the right a woman wearing an apron is standing with two children posing outside a hotel. The hotel offers ic...
Photograph

Group of Employees in front of Cafe

Date: 1930
Description: View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc...
Photograph

The Dane County News Office

Date: 1925
Description: View from street of three people posing in front of the printing office and shop.
Photograph

Willms Home with Cigar Workers

Date: 1890
Description: Cigar workers on the sidewalk in front of the Willms home, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are young men and older boys, some in aprons. Anna Willms (b. 1881) a...
Photograph

Snow Blower

Date: 1963
Description: Winter scene of Ralph Widmer, the photographer's brother, using a snow blower to clear a walkway on Wisconsin Street, Theresa, Wisconsin. Written on back,...
Photograph

Delivery of Bread Right To Your Door

Date: 1939
Description: A woman standing on her doorstep buys bread from a deliveryman. His truck is parked in the driveway. Text on the truck reads "Capitol Bakers, 'Right' to yo...
Photograph

Blacksmith and Wagon Shop

Date: 
Description: View across street towards six men posing, with four of the men wearing aprons and work clothes, and two men in suits holding guns. Beside them on the left...
Photograph

Four Boys in Costumes

Date: 
Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of House

Date: 
Description: View from road towards two women, three young boys (all barefoot), a young girl and man, and a dog, posing sitting on or standing near a wooden fence along...
Photograph

William Schlicht Liquor Store

Date: 
Description: The storefront of the William Schlicht Wholesale Liquor Dealer. The building also was a saloon and features shuttered windows, advertising posters in the l...
Photograph

The Schlitz

Date: 1905
Description: The Schlitz Saloon on the corner of Doty and King Streets. The saloon was owned by Fred C. Harbort from 1900-1907. There is a man in an apron standing at t...
Photograph

Julie's Grocery C-1 Truck

Date: 06 02 1936
Description: Men load bushels into the back of an International C-1 truck while parked in front of Julie's Grocery Market.
Photograph

Creamery

Date: 
Description: View across road of creamery building. Male workers are standing near the entrance on the left in front of a sign that says "Patch Grove Creamery." On the ...

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: