Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 58

Photograph

Speidel and Milwaukee County Zoo Model

Date: 02 20 1954
Description: Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo...
Postcard

International Harvester Postcard — Mexico

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard of farmers operating grain binders in Mexico. Includes a color illustration of two grain binders pulled by oxen or cattle. Original caption reads:...
Photograph

Drying Sisal Fibre in Yucatan

Date: 1910
Description: Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production.
Photograph

Workers Hanging Sisal in Yucatan(?)

Date: 1948
Description: Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C...
Photograph

Pablo the Magician

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s...
Photograph

R.L. Gregory

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of R.L. Gregory.
Photograph

Union Solidarity

Date: 1959
Description: Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas.
Photograph

Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
Photograph

Mexican School Children

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A group of Mexican school children pose with their teacher near a palm tree in front of a schoolhouse.
Photograph

Post Office

Date: 
Description: A stagecoach full of people is outside the post office on snow-covered ground, waiting to leave town. Text on image reads: "Stage, Leaving Arbor Vitae, Wis...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Latin American Week

Date: 03 24 1949
Description: Admiring the native Salvadorian dress worn by Maria Freund, at left, are her brothers Roberto, at center, chairman of Latin American Week; and Ernesto, at ...
Photograph

Wisconsin High School Foreign Students

Date: 12 14 1949
Description: Group portrait of students who have been granted visas from foreign lands to study at Wisconsin High. Left to right: Robert Dawn, Shanghai, China; June Bin...
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club Christmas Folk Festival

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: Mary Telford, dressed in a Mexican costume, is shown with a nativity scene at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival.
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club Christmas Folk Festival

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: Mildred Horne and Ethel Rockwell, dressed in Mexican costumes, are at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival.
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club Christmas Folk Festival

Date: 12 15 1949
Description: Christine Brinsmade is shown in Mexican costume doing an authentic Mexican dance at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival.
Photograph

Commandos L Marksmanship Class

Date: 1963
Description: Members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L practicing rifle marksmanship in the Everglades. A man with a rifle is crouching on the ground next to boxes o...
Photograph

Commandos L Radio Testing

Date: 1963
Description: A member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L sitting on a bed testing a new radio transmitter-receiver.
Photograph

Raúl Castro Reading, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Close-up of Raúl Castro sitting in a warehouse reading a piece of paper during the Cuban Revolution. The torso of another man wearing a belt of pouches is ...
Photograph

Raúl Castro, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro is smoking a cigarette and leaning towards someone writing in a notebook during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and probably Celia Sanchez ar...
Photograph

Raúl Castro and Map, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro sitting at a desk in front of a map of Oriente Province taped to the wall. He is wearing a beret and holding a cigarette in his hands.

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: