Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 146

Photograph

Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
Poster

McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Book or Pamphlet

Amouroux Freres Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of French advertising brochure for Amouroux Freres agricultural equipment featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of an angel, bird, flowers ...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Plano light running harvesting machinery, featuring an illustration of a young woman holding a bundle of wheat over he...
Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog cover featuring a chromolithograph illustration of flowers around a red scroll with blue ribbon, advertising the Mowing & R...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1907
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick farm implements featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a bundle of wheat against ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of farm implements featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman ...
Book or Pamphlet

Randolph Header Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Randolph header manufactured by the Craver and Steele Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of farme...
Photograph

Weighing Kittens

Date: 07 1905
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger outdoors in the yard. Edgar is sitting on a concrete planter holding a kitten in his lap. Jennie is kneeling in the grass weighing...
Photograph

Young Woman in Rowboat with Flowers

Date: 1900
Description: One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t...
Photograph

W.S. Pierce House

Date: 1909
Description: W.S. Pierce house under the shade of trees.
Postcard

Pennoyer Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: The Pennoyer Sanitarium, later called the Pennoyer Home. The structure was built in 1890 on the north end of Milwaukee Avenue. It was later used as St. Cat...
Postcard

Pennoyer Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: The Pennoyer Sanitarium, later called the Pennoyer Home. The structure was built in 1890 on the north end of Milwaukee Avenue. It was later used as St. Cat...
Postcard

Mendota State Hospital

Date: 1906
Description: View across the grounds towards the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). Caption reads: "Mendota Hospital for Insane, Madison, Wis."
Photograph

Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 12 07 1909
Description: The Main Hall of the Milwaukee Auditorium. Set for the Charity Ball with many flower arrangements and seats.
Photograph

The Fourth Ward Park

Date: 1903
Description: View of the Fourth Ward Park. Several men sit on a bench, while numerous houses and a factory are visible in the background.
Postcard

Fox Point Club

Date: 1909
Description: View down curving drive toward a building with a blue roof. The drive is lined by flowers. Caption reads: "Fox Point Club, Milwaukee, Wis."
Photograph

Hiram Smith Hall

Date: 1906
Description: View from edge of road of dairy building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A stone and timber, Queen Anne-style structure of wood beams and st...
Photograph

Picnic Point

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill with flowers and trees in "the daisy field" on the Lake Mendota shoreline between Raymer’s Cove and Wally Bauman Woods in the current Lakesh...

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: