Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 101-120 of 213

Photograph

Egg Harbor

Date: 1925
Description: View from low hill of a man standing as he is driving a team and wagon up Egg Harbor Road, traveling north. An automobile is parked in the foreground along...
Photograph

Onion Fields of John Hass

Date: 07 31 1895
Description: Chas B. Howe standing in his garden, holding cabbages, beets, onions, and turnips. The garden is located on the farm of John Hass, with 1.5 acres of onions...
Photograph

Farm Home of August Krueger

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: View across road of the log buildings and farm home of August Krueger. Two women and three men stand near the fence along the road. One of the men holds a ...
Photograph

Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
Photograph

Charcoal Kilns

Date: 09 27 1895
Description: Elevated view of men and horses standing atop the platform used to load wood into charcoal kilns, also known as pits. These kilns convert cord wood into ch...
Postcard

Man Standing on Load of Logs

Date: 1921
Description: A man is standing on top of a stack of firewood that is loaded on his horse-drawn bobsled. He is wearing a coat and hat. In the background are two homes an...
Photograph

Rural Tavern

Date: 
Description: Eight men standing outside a corner tavern. The men are standing on a plank sidewalk with a dog. The is a Blatz Beer sign hanging outside the door.
Photograph

Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

Photograph

Group of People Posing in front of House

Date: 
Description: Two women, two men, and two girls standing in front of a wooden house (probably the backyard), near a clothesline with drying wash. Two boys are standing o...
Photograph

School Group Posing Outdoors

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a woman and a group of boys and girls posing sitting and standing in front of a wooden building, probably a school group, possibly the To...
Photograph

Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
Photograph

Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Buggy in front of House

Date: 
Description: Man and woman posing in front of a fence. They are standing near a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. In the background is a two-story frame house with ...
Photograph

People and a Buggy in Front of a House

Date: 
Description: A man, woman, and two children are posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the corner of the two-story frame house...
Photograph

Emile de Antonio on East Hampton Beach

Date: 1971
Description: Emile de Antonio stands on a beach wearing a suit coat, pants and shoes while carrying logs and sticks of different sizes. He is turned to the side and is ...
Photograph

Typical Home in Site I

Date: 08 14 1935
Description: Man in coveralls standing outside a small house. A ladder leans against the side of the house on the left. There are four wooden posts in the foreground.
Photograph

Family in front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: View across grassy field towards a group of people posing in front of two-story frame house with a porch. Three women, and a man holding a young child. are...
Photograph

Man Sawing Logs

Date: 
Description: View across deep snow towards a man sawing logs next to a log cabin. In the background is a fence, and beyond across a field are more farm buildings and a ...
Photograph

Woman on Porch, Golds Alley

Date: 1966
Description: "The 69 year-old woman on the front porch lives alone at the bottom of this unpaved, unlighted, ungraded alley. The building next to her is empty. She hea...
Photograph

Woman Outside House, Taylor Alley

Date: 1966
Description: A woman stands next to a home near a woodpile. Behind the trees in the background, more homes are visible. "Houses are built in rows and cover the hill fro...
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 
Description: View down middle of two railroad tracks towards the railroad depot. Freight cars are on another set of railroad tracks on the left, and in the far backgrou...

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: