Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-14 of 14

Photograph

Highlander Folk School Staff Meeting

Date: 
Description: Highlander staff meeting: left to right; Tom Ludwig, Myles Horton, Catherine Winston, Zilphia Horton.
Photograph

Catherine Winston

Date: 
Description: Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette.
Photograph

Rubber Workers Workshop

Date: 
Description: Rubber Workers during a workshop at the Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton on far left.
Photograph

Mine, Mill, and Smelters Union

Date: 
Description: Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe.
Photograph

CIO Students Reading

Date: 
Description: Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs".
Photograph

Hosiery Workers

Date: 
Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
Photograph

CIO Meeting at Highlander

Date: 
Description: Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

Date: 
Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Farmers Union Meeting Near Lake

Date: 
Description: Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right.
Photograph

Men's Locker Room at Highlander

Date: 
Description: A group of men, one smoking a cigarette, in the men's locker room at Highlander Folk School.
Photograph

Food, Tobacco, and Agricultural Workshop Participant

Date: 
Description: A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand.
Photograph

Man Gesturing with Cigar

Date: 
Description: A man holding a cigar is gesturing wildly. A portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt hangs behind him. An unidentified man and Catherine Winston sit on eit...
Photograph

Rosa Parks at Clinton Students Gathering

Date: 1956
Description: Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South.
Photograph

Myles Horton and Grace Hamilton

Date: 
Description: Myles Horton and Grace Towns Hamilton during an Urban League meeting 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:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org