Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Needlework
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1809 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Embroidered sampler of a map of the United States. |
| Date: | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec... |
| Date: | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Ole Wettlesen family poses in the yard in front of a picket fence with women knitting. Two standing men appear to be examining an unfolded map. The fra... |
| Date: | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A large family is posed in the front yard around a table set with a white cloth and glassware, before a two-story bracket style house with a hip roof. The ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Knitted baby bonnet made with tan cotton yarn and decorated with glass beads. |
| Date: | 1827 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Baby mittens knitted of blue and white wool yarn. |
| Date: | 1847 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Baby mittens knitted of ecru, red and pink wool yarn. |
| Date: | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Petticoat knitted of yellow, pink, blue, black, and white wool yarn, with a ribbon belt. |
| Date: | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ada Bass sits in a chair sewing at a table while her daughter, Everetta, lies on a daybed. |
| Date: | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be... |
| Date: | 1840 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha... |
| Date: | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom... |
| Date: | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An interior view of the music room of the George Brumder home at the corner of Wells and 10th Streets. The room has a high ceiling and is decorated in Vict... |
| Date: | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ... |
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: