Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 121-140 of 146

Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: The book, Days of Adventure, being read aloud by Hadi Pankow and Randy Sumner as other boys and girls follow along. The group is sitting on stone st...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Pupils reading Days of Adventure outdoors: Lucy Hobbins, Dennis Curran and Carlton Enger.
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Teacher Mrs. Gertrude Wilson is sitting outside in the shade and reading to her pupils. She is sitting in a chair on a sidewalk across from the children wh...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
Photograph

Peck's Bad Boy in School

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of mischievous schoolboys in a classroom. One boy is reacting to something sharp on his desk chair and two boys are enjoying the results of the...
Photograph

Children Gathered Around Horse-Drawn Walking Plow

Date: 
Description: View of children gathered around a horse-drawn walking plow at Budlong School. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Group of People in Three Horse-Drawn Wagons

Date: 
Description: View towards men, women and children in three horse-drawn wagons on a dirt road in front of what may be a schoolhouse. There is a bell tower on the buildin...
Photograph

Children Working in Garden at Van Vlissingen School

Date: 
Description: Children, boys and girls, are working in a garden at the school. The stone and brick school building has arched windows. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Cicero School Garden Club

Date: 
Description: Henry and Violet Schmietendorf are standing in a vegetable garden next to a sign that reads: "Cicero School Garden Club." Lantern slide.
Photograph

Madison Schools Safety Patrol Trip to Washington, D.C.

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Madison Schools students chosen as Safety Patrol members by their schools board the train to Washington, D.C. to attend the National Assembly of School Saf...
Photograph

Children Working in Classroom

Date: 
Description: View from back of classroom towards a teacher and a group of children working with lab equipment in the front of the room. Other children are sitting in sc...
Photograph

Winners of 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Awards

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag...
Photograph

Spelling Bee

Date: 04 20 1958
Description: The winner and the runner-up for the city spelling bee championship. In the foreground is Marc Williamson, East Junior High, who will represent Madison in ...
Photograph

Lakewood Pupils Present Play

Date: 04 24 1958
Description: Seventh-grade pupils of Lakewood school to present the play "Like Father, Like Son" in the school gymnasium. The cast includes, left to right: Jamie Halver...
Photograph

Young School Boys Standing in a Row Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Young school boys are lined up in a row on the sidewalk. An older boy is standing behind the group. The young boys are all wearing short pants. One boy (th...
Photograph

Jeff Martoz, 2nd Grader at Nakoma School

Date: 09 09 1960
Description: After a summer of play, Jeff Martoz is not looking forward to beginning 2nd grade at Nakoma School, 3870 Nakoma Road (currently Thoreau Elementary School)....
Photograph

We Saw You . . . Touring Newspaper Plant

Date: 02 09 1961
Description: The 2nd grade class at Hawthorne School tour the Madison Newspaper, Inc. plant as part of a week-long study of newspapers in their Social Studies class. Mi...
Photograph

Playground Games

Date: 1968
Description: Children and adults having a tug of war during a play day at Marquette School. A fence and dwellings are in the background.
Photograph

Before the Bell

Date: 1977
Description: Children playing on monkey bars as snow falls. A dwelling or schoolhouse is in the background.
Photograph

Pomp and Circumstance

Date: 1977
Description: Grade school children are pretending their diplomas are binoculars in a graduation ceremony. They are wearing hand made robes, and caps with a pom pom inst...

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: