Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 21

Photograph

Mini Bar

Date: 1950
Description: Mini bar with refrigerator and glassware.
Photograph

Hearth and Home

Date: 1950
Description: Kitchen and dining room area of a home with a fireplace.
Photograph

Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
Photograph

J. Robert Taylor

Date: 10 01 1938
Description: Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head....
Photograph

Interior of the Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts House

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Kitchen in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Roberts, 13 S. Midvale Blvd., one of four homes designed and constructed by Marshall Erdman for war veterans with s...
Photograph

Philip C. and Kathleen Rosenthal House Kitchen

Date: 10 19 1951
Description: Philip and Kathleen Rosenthal's salmon-red house in Shorewood Hills at 3668 Lake Mendota Drive, designed by Milwaukee architect Alvin Jansama and built in ...
Photograph

Biddick Home

Date: 07 10 1952
Description: Kitchen of the Roscoe Biddick home at 2509 Hoard Street. The house was built entirely by the Biddicks and several friends.
Photograph

Electric Cord on Nail

Date: 07 1926
Description: A man wearing a bow tie is toasting a piece of bread on an electric griddle with its cord hanging on a nail on the wall at International Harvester's Hinsda...
Photograph

Forest and Bear

Date: 1897
Description: Forest Middleton, wearing a plaid dress, lectures his Teddy Bear, which is seated in a high chair.
Photograph

Woman and Young Girl Canning Beans

Date: 1926
Description: Woman and young girl working in a kitchen canning beans. The girl is standing at the sink running a faucet while the woman is seated at a table using a bea...
Photograph

Built-In Ironing Board

Date: 06 1923
Description: Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right.
Photograph

Woman Ironing

Date: 10 1927
Description: A woman sitting in a wooden chair while using an electric iron on clothing. A laundry basket is at her feet.
Photograph

Farm Family Eating Dinner

Date: 
Description: Mother, father, and seven children seated at a kitchen table eating dinner.
Photograph

Canning Corn: Removing from Cooker and Cooling

Date: 07 19 1926
Description: A woman and a girl standing in a kitchen. They are in the process of canning corn at the Harvester Farm, and are removing cans from the cooker and allowing...
Photograph

Monona Grove High School Student Council Kitchen Tour

Date: 04 03 1957
Description: Mrs. Harvey (Bonita) Hubanks sitting next to a fireplace in the family room adjacent to the kitchen in their home at 4206 Jerome Street in Madison. The kit...
Photograph

Alfred and Lynn in the Summer Kitchen

Date: 1933
Description: Alfred Lunt stands at the edge of a table holding a beverage, near Lynn Fontanne who is sitting, in the kitchen of the cottage at their Ten Chimneys estate...
Photograph

Man Posing in Sid's Kitchen

Date: 
Description: A man is posing in profile in Sid's kitchen, carrying a bucket in his left hand and holding a towel over his right shoulder. On the wall in the background ...
Photograph

Bathtime

Date: 
Description: A young girl is sitting in a galvanized washtub on the floor in front of an oil burning stove and an armchair. Flowered wallpaper covers the walls. [The bo...
Photograph

Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1916
Description: A Christmas tree decorated with glass ornaments, tinsel garland, and round electric lights is standing on a large block of wood in front of the bow window ...
Photograph

Governor's Mansion — Kitchen

Date: 1930
Description: View of the kitchen with a Reliant stove in the foreground along the right wall. A large sink is along a wall just beyond the stove. In the background on t...

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: