Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-19 of 19

Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

Doctor's Office

Date: 11 28 1922
Description: Newly constructed doctor's office. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in the mines of its subsidiary, ...
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of advertising catalog for the Excelsior line of harvesting machines manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features an illustration with the title: "Nap...
Poster

Battle of Mission Ridge Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the Civil War battle of Mission Ridge. Features an inset with a small ...
Photograph

Agriculturalist Automobile

Date: 1914
Description: An automobile with an advertisement on the bumper bears a United States flag, occupying a road with mountains in the background. The advertisement reads: "...
Photograph

Steamboat "Lavelle Young"

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the steamboat "Lavelle Young" landing in Fairbanks as a crowd of people are looking on. Text on photograph reads: "Steamer 'Lavelle Young'...
Photograph

Whiteface Mountain Highway Toll Station

Date: 
Description: View of the Whiteface Mountain Highway Toll Station, and three cars parked nearby.
Photograph

Fort Union

Date: 
Description: An illustrated view of Fort Union (on the North Dakota-Montana boundary), with an Indian encampment.
Photograph

Mount Lowe Railway's Cable Car

Date: 
Description: The cable car on Mount Lowe Railway, existing from 1893-1938, climbing a steep incline in California. Mount Lowe is known for being the only scenic mountai...
Photograph

Service Station

Date: 
Description: The Molino Service Station and grill on former U.S. Route 120, now Pennsylvania Route 61. Signs on the building advertise "Bar-B-Q," "Lunch," and "Ice Crea...
Photograph

Glacier Park Hotel Entrance

Date: 
Description: View of the Glacier Park Hotel entrance. View features a large archway surrounded by two smaller archways with paths passing under each. There are two flag...
Photograph

Summit of White Pass, Under Two Flags

Date: 07 05 1899
Description: View of a tourist group at White Pass, a mountain pass located between Alaska and Canada. A shack has a sign that reads: "U.S. Hotel Restaurant" is to the ...
Print

Robbie's Yodel Club Menu

Date: 
Description: Front cover and middle menu pages from Robbie's Yodel Club in the New Glarus Hotel, with a sign featuring the restaurant logo's three figures: one holding ...
Photograph

International Vehicles Near Start Line

Date: 1977
Description: View across dirt parking area towards men with International vehicles. There are "START" signs on poles near a dirt road. Tables with umbrellas, and flags ...
Photograph

Scouts in Action

Date: 1977
Description: View from audience looking towards a man wearing a cowboy hat. He is standing at a podium in a parking lot. The sign on the podium reads: "Scouts in Action...
Photograph

Men Near Greyhound Buses

Date: 1977
Description: Three men stand in the foreground. One of the men wears a "Scout" cap. Chairs are set up in rows near a podium and a tent. Behind the podium people are gat...
Photograph

Trucks "Sahara"

Date: 04 09 1926
Description: Men in Africa with a truck on a road lined with trees. Mountains are in the background.
Photograph

Traffic Control on Mount Lovcen

Date: 
Description: Flag signal station on a mountain road at Lovcen. Raising the flag signals wagons below to stop.
Photograph

Palmer Pioneer Cemetery

Date: 06 2019
Description: Front gate of the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery. There are mountains in the distance.

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: