Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 201-216 of 216

Photograph

Fun with an Old Nail Keg

Date: 
Description: A boy named Henry rolling down a hill in an old nail keg. Part of the Highlander Folk School nursery. There is also a girl in the background with another ...
Photograph

Children with Train of Crates

Date: 
Description: A group of children, part of Highlander Folk School's nursery, making a train with wooden crates.
Photograph

Feeding Children Cod Liver Oil

Date: 
Description: A woman giving Highlander nursery school children cod liver oil.
Photograph

Young Woman Teaching Labor Class

Date: 
Description: A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Mapping Communistic Influence

Date: 
Description: Bruce Bennett diagramming Highlander Folk School's "Communistic" influence in the South.
Photograph

Zilphia and Myles Horton Reading

Date: 
Description: Myles Horton and Zilphia Horton reviewing some written materials at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Highlander Student Workshop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Music being played at a Highlander Folk School student workshop. John Lewis in back, extreme left; James Bevel, kneeling, left (in front of John); Candie A...
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt with Friends

Date: 
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt, on left, shaking hands with Mrs. Jennings Perry, standing. May Justus is on the right. At Highlander Folk School. Possibly part of 25th ...
Photograph

CIO School Banquet

Date: 
Description: Members of the CIO School at a banquet. Fifth from left, Bill Kornhauser, Antioch student, later professor of sociology. Zilphia Horton, extreme left foreg...
Photograph

Model of Highlander Folk School Grounds

Date: 
Description: Scale model of Highlander Folk School grounds on a lake, featuring its primary buildings. Architectural model by Carl Koch.
Photograph

Bernice Robinson, Esau Jenkins, and Lewis Sinclair

Date: 
Description: Bernice Robinson, Esau Jenkins, and Lewis Sinclair listening to an audio recording at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Rosa Parks at Segregation Workshop

Date: 07 24 1955
Description: Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Thorsten Horton, Myles Horton, and Rosa Parks

Date: 
Description: Thorsten and Myles Horton, sitting on left, watching Rosa Parks, standing and speaking at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Portrait of Septima Clark

Date: 
Description: Civil Rights activist, Septima Clark, at Highlander Folk School.
Book or Pamphlet

"A Guide To Community Action" Cover

Date: 1955
Description: The front cover of a booklet titled: "A Guide To Community Action For Public School Integration." Text over image at bottom reads: "Highlander Staff Planni...
Photograph

Esau Jackson, Morris Mitchell and Septima Clark

Date: 1960
Description: From left to right are Esau Jackson, Morris Mitchell and Septima Clark. They are attending a dinner at Highlander Folk School.

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: