Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Signs and signboards
Filter: Subject of food
| Date: | 07 1967 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
| Date: | 02 14 1985 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store. |
| Date: | 12 08 1933 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A Kraft cheese display at the Kroger Store located at 3 Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army. |
| Date: | 05 03 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Window display at Harry S. Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, featuring the "Can-o-mat" can openers, "Can-o-mat, fully automatic, streamlined bea... |
| Date: | 05 19 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Frank Brothers grocery store at 611 University Avenue, display window showing Duff's Waffle Mix. |
| Date: | 01 03 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Testing a Westinghouse refrigerator (door open with food inside and woman standing behind the open door) with wires from an Official Test Panel attached to... |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
| Date: | 01 19 1929 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mock Easter display window of Hankscraft egg cooker. |
| Date: | 1953 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Young boy with a rootbeer float moustache standing in the parking lot of a rootbeer stand. |
| Date: | 10 05 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Description: | International Harvester poster advertising home canning and offering free books. The sign reads: "Canning Means Saving, Saving Means Money. Ask Your Wife, ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1948 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group portrait of Governor Rennebohm with nine men looking at a boxcar of the CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) train. The nine-carload train contain... |
| Date: | 1964 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of... |
| Date: | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Description: | University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U... |
| Date: | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca... |
| Date: | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Shelves lined with cans, bottles, jars, etc., showing adulterated foods (e.g. maple syrup that contains no maple sap) at a Farmers' Institute Event. |
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:
