Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 28

Photograph

Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
Photograph

School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
Photograph

Feltman and Curme Shoe Store Interior

Date: 02 06 1935
Description: Feltman and Curme Shoe Store, 21 E. Main Street.
Book or Pamphlet

Dairymaid Cream Separators Catalog Cover

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dairymaid cream separators sold by International Harvester. Features a silhouette of a woman standing in the doorway of...
Photograph

Kitchen Scene

Date: 1944
Description: A woman sitting on a stool in a kitchen peeling fruits or vegetables. Another woman is lifting the lid off a pot on the stove.
Photograph

The Candle Room at Morris-Jumel Mansion

Date: 
Description: Interior of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, also known as Washington's Headquarter's, built in 1765 by Colonel Roger Morriw and Mary Philipse. The view includes ...
Photograph

School Kitchen in Iowa

Date: 10 30 1917
Description: Interior view of the school kitchen in the domestic science department at Orange Township Consolidated School.
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

St. Raphael Cathedral Remodeling

Date: 09 08 1953
Description: Martin Baaken, Dennis Meronek, and Paul Brantmeyer remove pews from one section of St. Raphael Cathedral as a historic remodeling project gets under way at...
Photograph

A Structural Technology Student

Date: 12 11 1961
Description: A structural technology student works on a project in a drawing class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
Photograph

Mrs. Guener Washing Dishes

Date: 10 1923
Description: Mrs. Guener washing dishes while sitting on a stool attached to a sink in J.O. Waggoner's home.
Photograph

Painting and Decorating Class

Date: 1910
Description: Two young boys work on a wall in a school room as part of a vocational painting and decorating class.
Print

Mechanical Drawing and Workshop Mathematics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Students are seated at desks in a mechanical drawing and workshop mathematics class at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Photograph

Merchants Hotel

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the facade of Merchants Hotel, located at the intersection of First and Fillmore Streets. Men and women are posed sitting and standing on ...
Photograph

Worker Affixing Fabric to Chair with Stapler

Date: 1972
Description: A man is affixing fabric to a chair with a pneumatic stapler. He is leaning forward and is wearing an apron. Piles around him are chairs, pieces of partial...
Photograph

Prospect Avenue

Date: 1921
Description: View of Prospect Avenue. A group of men and a woman standing in front of the store, which is a two-story wooden building with shuttered windows, next to a ...
Photograph

Polperro House Sitting Room at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Sitting room in Polperro House. Rocking chairs and a bench are by the fire in the fireplace. A corner china cabinet is on the right near a window.
Photograph

Examples of Wood Work at the School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy

Date: 1907
Description: A group of ladders, stair risers, wagon box, other wooden farm equipment and furniture displayed in a classroom at the Winnebago County School of Agricultu...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Man and a Stringer of Trout

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man posing sitting on a stool under a ladder. There is a stringer of trout tied to the ladder displayed...
Photograph

Lawson Drafting Tables

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of drafting tables for aircraft design, presumably inside the Lawson plant. There are several stools, desks and tables set up in the corner o...

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: