Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-8 of 8

Photograph

Children Playing with Flying Rings

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children, mostly boys wearing caps, playing with flying rings outside at a playground in front of a brick building.
Photograph

Boys on the Railroad Tracks

Date: 
Description: Two boys sitting on the railroad tracks under a train. The boy on the left is looking back over his shoulder and is wearing a straw hat with a small Americ...
Photograph

Syl Standing by Pond

Date: 05 28 1899
Description: Syl standing in front of a small pond in Reservoir Park. A large group of people is gathered in the background around a tree.
Photograph

Syl in front of Octagon Cottage

Date: 11 1900
Description: Syl standing in front of a octagonal-shaped Gordon Cottage. The edge of the roof has crenelations along it, and a brick chimney is in the middle the roof. ...
Photograph

Lily Pond at Humboldt Park

Date: 08 28 1898
Description: A large lily pond at Humboldt Park. Children are playing in the background and the roof of a building is in the distance.
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

Christmas Morning

Date: 12 25 1931
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are smiling as they are posing standing in front of the Christmas tree holding gifts. From left...
Photograph

Fountain in Courthouse Square

Date: 
Description: Two young girls standing in front of an ornate fountain in Milwaukee's Courthouse Square. The courthouse and fountain were later demolished, and the square...

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: