Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 202

Photograph

Telephone Workers

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working on telephone lines from scaffolding attached to the pole in front of the telephone exchange building.
Photograph

Men Outside of American Express Company Office

Date: 09 1896
Description: Four unidentified men posing standing in front of office buildings. Sign in the window of the American Express Company Office shows a horse and advertises ...
Photograph

Charles Van Schaick Home

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the street and board sidewalk. Robie house located lower left; Charles Van Schaick residence with porch located in the center; Roman Catho...
Photograph

Stores on Main Street

Date: 1901
Description: South side of Main Street from the intersection with Merrill Street. Various storefronts are on the left, including J.M. McCormick Dry Goods and Groceries;...
Photograph

Jen Parsons Kelly on Sidewalk

Date: 
Description: A woman posing standing on a board sidewalk in front of a wooden building, possibly on the east side of South First Street.
Photograph

Elevated View of Downtown

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view looking west from the Jackson County Courthouse.
Photograph

Central Wisconsin Telephone Company Exchange Building

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Central Wisconsin Telephone Company exchange building from the street.
Photograph

Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

Date: 
Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
Photograph

Intersection of Main and First Streets

Date: 
Description: Buildings on the southwest section of Main Street at the intersection of Main and First Streets. Storefronts, from left to right, include A.F. Werner, A. M...
Photograph

Intersection of First and Main Streets

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of woman walking along side street of town. In the background are horses and carriages.
Photograph

Billboards on Water Street

Date: 
Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
Photograph

Man Driving Advertising Cart on First Street

Date: 
Description: A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol...
Photograph

Main Street, between Water and First Streets

Date: 
Description: Wagon piled high with chairs, with a man standing and driving a team of two horses. A man on the sidewalk is looking back at camera. There are other wagons...
Photograph

Cattle on Main Street

Date: 
Description: Men driving cattle down Main Street, and a surrey with a team of two horses on the right. Storefronts identified on the north side of Main Street include J...
Photograph

Man and Woman on Sidewalk

Date: 
Description: View from sidewalk of a horse-drawn buggy parked along the side of Main Street, looking southeast at First Street. An immigrant couple, possibly Norwegian,...
Photograph

Woman on First Street

Date: 
Description: Woman posing standing on the west side of South First Street in front of the photographic studio of Charles J. Van Schaick. There is a sign on the building...
Photograph

Men on Board Sidewalk

Date: 
Description: View of the north and south corners of the west side of the intersection between First Street and Main Street. Jones and Murray Hardware store identified o...
Photograph

Circus Performance on Main Street

Date: 
Description: Crowd watching a circus performance in the street, possibly centered on a gorilla named Johanna according to the banner in the background. There is an arch...
Photograph

Group Posing in front of Storefront on Main Street

Date: 
Description: View from street towards a group of people poing in front of the storefront of the Jones and Marsh Dry Goods. John Marsh, the proprietor, is sitting on the...
Photograph

Dry Goods Storefront on Main Street

Date: 
Description: View from street towards a young man wearing suit and a derby hat posing standing in the doorway of Jones and Marsh Dry Goods.

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:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org