Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites!
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Portrait photography
Filter: Subject of social issues
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Advertisement picturing a white woman and an African American man with the title "The Real Criminals Are Those Who Preach Racial Integration." |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse... |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader. |
| Date: | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 12 11 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men, at least one of them a miner, standing in front of the no. 7 opening to the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harve... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| Date: | 11 20 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank sitting in a swivel chair reading: "The open door at the home." |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 06 15 1933 |
|---|---|
| Description: | John Walker, father of 16 children, standing outside a greenhouse with a pipe in his mouth. |
| Date: | 06 20 1933 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of "King Joe," hobo king, in town lobbying to make Wisconsin safe for "hobo-ocracy." He was elected president of the Bonafide Hobos Union at an in... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A portrait of an elderly Susan B. Anthony. She is known primarily for her leadership in the women's rights movement, but was also an activist for other soc... |
| Date: | 08 11 1941 |
|---|---|
| Description: | John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is... |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond sang African American spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. Richmond came to Grant County Wisconsin with her parents, fr... |
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:
