Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-17 of 17

Photograph

Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
Book or Pamphlet

48 - Woman Shearing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman shearing angora rabbit on table. The rabbit is shown in various stages of being shaved, and there is also a group of woman shearing rabbits on a long...
Photograph

Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Mrs. Bernard (Edna) Heilprin and Mrs. William L.(Margaret) Dowling shown installing a Christmas Seal poster. They are members of the Madison Tuberculosis A...
Photograph

Showroom at Morrison Implement Co.

Date: 1929
Description: A corn sheller, plow and disc harrows on display in the showroom of the Morrison Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Posters and bann...
Photograph

Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 05 02 1942
Description: Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Prizes

Date: 06 14 1950
Description: Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct...
Photograph

Military Meat

Date: 08 1951
Description: At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co...
Photograph

Farm Supply Store

Date: 09 1937
Description: An interior view of an unidentified farm supply store and International dealership, with banners advertising McCormick-Deering farm implements and tractors...
Photograph

Rural Teachers Learn Woodworking and Rope Tying

Date: 08 1919
Description: Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope.
Photograph

Group of Women Learning Woodworking

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ...
Photograph

Girls Making Lunch

Date: 1919
Description: Two girls mixing food in a bowl while preparing lunch at Sedan Prairie School. A poster reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds" is on the blackboard behind them, and ...
Photograph

Women at IHC Agriculture Extension Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women, and a few children, seated in a meeting hall at an Agricultural Extension lecture on Home Economics. A woman at the front of the hall is po...
Photograph

Wallace Poster Advertising Company Truck

Date: 03 21 1925
Description: International Model S truck owned by the Wallace Poster Advertising Company is parked along the side of a road in front of two billboards. Two men on the r...
Photograph

Factory Worker at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: A man wearing work clothes, a hat, and a long apron is standing and posing in front of a work station at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later kno...
Photograph

Teachers

Date: 1914
Description: A group of male and female Cook County teachers studying corn, preparatory to taking up this work in their rural schools.
Photograph

Testing Paper Apparatus

Date: 1922
Description: View of an unidentified man sitting on a stool demonstrating delicate paper testing apparatus. A poster on the wall reads: "International Metric System."
Postcard

Creamery

Date: 02 18 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Creamery, Story, Wis." Two men pose in front of a two-story, clapboard creamery with a lean-to. The building has a cupola and a stair...

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: