Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-12 of 12

Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

Date: 
Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

Date: 
Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 139-147

Date: 
Description: Around the corner: the geography of childhood
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

Date: 
Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 351-358

Date: 
Description: The boss says —
The center is —

Good workmen then served two masters
One a man, the other a craft

A fine-edged tool biting life-long in...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 421-427

Date: 
Description: A word without momentum that settled on a note of calm

caught wind

and spun its venom into froth, to cool
a Sunday afternoon in June
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 532-542

Date: 
Description: Every macho-mind knows exactly what
and where it is — up front, smoking
hot, born to circumstance, savage
watchman of the several thousand Rights
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

Date: 
Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 758-765

Date: 
Description: Lightning cleared the air, that we could see
just how deep the rootland lay
Far below the wished for, but not beyond the Will
Historical Object

093 - Joy Camps Water Activities

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. On the left is a Snipe setting sail with a camper and Miss Camp aboard. The top middle photogr...
Historical Object

111 - Camp Pioneers of Joy Camps

Date: 
Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying five photographs. Young campers are participating in a number of activities, including tennis, seesawing, boatin...
Historical Object

Joy Camps Beaver Point Trip

Date: 
Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook displaying several camp photographs. Includes the "Riding Committee meeting" (including the Dalmatian "Lindy"), campers...

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: