Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 59

Photograph

Beauty Bath

Date: 12 03 1967
Description: A woman takes a bath at the Edgewater beauty and health spa.
Photograph

Lunch at Kiddie Camp

Date: 07 17 1933
Description: Children sitting at a table and having lunch at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp.
Photograph

Four Dolphin Club Girls

Date: 03 18 1933
Description: Four female Dolphin Club members posing in bathing suits on the diving board of the Lathrop Hall pool.
Photograph

Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 12 1933
Description: Avenue Food Shop, 546 W. Washington Avenue, showing water in basement.
Photograph

Chapman Home Interior after Fire

Date: 12 29 1932
Description: Chandler B. and Frances Chapman home, 640 N. Carroll Street, showing the west bedroom after fire.
Photograph

Pumping Station Switchboard

Date: 08 02 1931
Description: Switchboard at City of Madison water well no. 4 pumping station, 5 N. Randall Street.
Photograph

Women in Synchronized Swimming Formation

Date: 05 12 1927
Description: Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison Dolphin Club women in the Lathrop swimming pool in a synchronized swimming formation.
Photograph

Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson

Date: 08 13 1945
Description: Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson. Elizabeth will be attending the Potter School in Tucson, Arizona. Hobart will return to the Middlesex School in Conco...
Photograph

Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele...
Photograph

Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation

Date: 05 12 1948
Description: Group portrait of fifteen members of the Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation, sponsors of an anti-pollution meeting to prohibit dumping of sewage ...
Photograph

Anti-Lake Pollution Mass Meeting

Date: 05 12 1948
Description: Elevated view of members of the audience attending a meeting sponsored by the newly incorporated Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation. The meeting ...
Photograph

Flood Damage

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: Flood damage to the interior of Lark Cocktail Lounge at 2554 University Avenue.
Photograph

Flood Damage

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: Flood damage, including a collapsed ceiling, to the interior of the Lark Cocktail Lounge at 2554 University Avenue.
Photograph

Annie, New Elephant at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: New Annie the elephant drinks water using her trunk in front of Fred Winklemann, left, retired zoo director, and Harold Hayes, right, present zoo director.
Photograph

Indoor Swimming Pool at Lathrop Hall

Date: 1931
Description: Indoor swimming pool at hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The pool area has a balcony on the right, and large windows on the far wall.
Photograph

Catholic Women's Club Officers

Date: 08 06 1949
Description: Group portrait of the new officers of the Catholic Women's Club of Madison at the Edgewater Hotel. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Raymond (Anna) Hilsenhoff...
Photograph

Wishing Well in Capitol Theatre

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to...
Photograph

YWCA Winter Activities

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Instructor Doris Greene, at right, teaches swimming class to seven young women as part of the YWCA Winter Activities program. At the edge of the pool are (...
Photograph

YWCA Winter Activities

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Instructor Patricia Patterson, 621 North Frances Street, teaches the correct technique for the side stroke to Alice Well, 2 Langdon Street, who is seated o...
Photograph

Blackhawk Country Club Addition

Date: 04 13 1950
Description: Interior view of the lounge in the newly completed $66,000 addition to the Blackhawk Country Club, whose large picture windows overlook Lake Mendota. The n...

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: