Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 21

Photograph

Giles House

Date: 1875
Description: Exterior view of the Giles house, residence of Hiram H. Giles, state legislator and social welfare authority.
Photograph

Kipp Residence

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Kipp residence with a woman in the front yard reclining in a hammock.
Photograph

Brick Home

Date: 
Description: An exterior view of a two-story brick house and its surrounding yard. The photograph is taken looking down the street and sidewalk. The house boasts a smal...
Photograph

Fern Rise

Date: 1900
Description: View uphill toward a group of people posing on and near the porch of Fern Rise, possibly a hotel or inn. Decorations and flags hang from the building's por...
Photograph

Brewery

Date: 1920
Description: View across road of a brewery in a residential area. Children are standing on the sidewalk, and on the lawn near a hammock and a lawn swing. A tall industr...
Postcard

Ingleside Resort

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of the Ingleside Resort on Lake Ripley. There is a porch on the cabin, and several hammocks are strung on trees on the lawn. Caption ...
Photograph

Beardsley Residence

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the Beardsley's house from the street. A young man in overalls stands on the wooden sidewalk. There is a hammock on the porch. A large building...
Photograph

Parson House

Date: 
Description: View from sidewalk of a man and three women posed standing on the porch of a frame house among many potted plants. Probably the residence of the Parson fam...
Photograph

Residence of Oderbolz, Pauquette and Bowman Families

Date: 
Description: View across street towards two individuals posing sitting on the porch of a house. The house is identified as the residence of the Oderbolz, Pauquette, and...
Photograph

F. Keefe Residence; Third and Madison Streets; Side View

Date: 
Description: View from yard of a boy posing standing on the porch of a two-story wooden house with a stone foundation which appears to be newly built. The house is iden...
Photograph

John Mills and Family

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a European American family. There is a man posing standing by a hammock in which a woman and infant are sitting. In the backgroun...
Photograph

R.P. Rainey Residence at 6th and Pierce Streets

Date: 1909
Description: View across unpaved street towards a two-story wooden house with a wrap-around porch and three entrances. A woman is sitting on the porch, and another woma...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A corner view of the Frank B. Fargo house is centered on the onion-domed polygonal tower. The open, wrap-around two-story porch features paired columns, ba...
Photograph

Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: View from street of Fargo house on Mulberry Street. A hammock and chair are on the open front porch. Foliage obscures the top of the tower on the left, but...
Photograph

Perry Small Franklin

Date: 1898
Description: Perry Small Franklin standing on the porch of a house, a door in the background. He is approximately two years old. He is wearing a short dress, the kind y...
Photograph

In the Holt Family Backyard

Date: 1897
Description: Cousins Jeannette Holt (left) and either Harriet or Margaret Stroh (right) are playing in the backyard under the supervision of grandmother Mary Mathilda A...
Photograph

Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
Photograph

Aunt May and Jeannette Holt in the Backyard

Date: 05 08 1899
Description: Looking at the camera, Jeannette Holt is standing next to her aunt May in the backyard of the Holt family home. Minnie May Rumsey is sitting on the hammock...
Photograph

Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Laurie Stein, 5 year old daughter of photographer Edwin Stein, playing in a double hammock with her friend Sara.
Photograph

Children Playing in a Hammock

Date: 07 20 1958
Description: Jimmie Stein, two year old son of photographer Edwin Stein, lying in a hammock.

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: