Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 561

Photograph

Classroom Reading

Date: 02 04 1957
Description: Classroom reading activities at school.
Photograph

Classroom Lessons

Date: 04 27 1956
Description: One girl is writing on the blackboard while students are sitting at their desks paying various degrees of attention at Leland School.
Photograph

Classroom Valentines

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards.
Photograph

Visiting a Lead Mine

Date: 1950
Description: Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
Photograph

Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
Photograph

Little Prairie School

Date: 04 29 1955
Description: Group portrait of students, Little Prairie School, District #2, taken outside in front of school building, including teacher Miss Vera Frederickson.
Photograph

Alfalfa for the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1951
Description: Irving Gerhardt, instructor of Vocational Agriculture, and Duane Lehr, Future Farmers of America member and agriculture student from Madison East High Scho...
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children playing outside the nursery school classroom at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Nursery School

Date: 06 28 1951
Description: Children sitting on the floor and working on art projects at tables in the nursery school at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. The building was de...
Photograph

Daisy Bates Standing Behind Little Rock Nine

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas NAACP, stands behind seven of the Little Rock Nine, who are seated on a sofa in her living room. They have assembled ...
Photograph

Students Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Student couples dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance. Included in the foreground are Donna Marshall and Larry Meicher.
Photograph

Students Dancing

Date: 11 16 1956
Description: Student couples dancing at the Cherokee Heights School dance. Included in the foreground are Sue Wehrle and Robert Geppert.
Photograph

Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartoonist Walt Kelly at Central High School with a person dressed as one of his characters, Pogo. He is showing a drawing to a group of students.
Photograph

Girls Baking Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Susie Kamm and Nancy Miles putting cookies into the oven. The girls are members of the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School. The class...
Photograph

Senior Law Students Tossing Canes

Date: 11 08 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin senior law school students toss their canes over the south goal post, a Badger tradition at the annual University of Wisconsin foot...
Photograph

West Junior High School Girls Making Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Nancy Rieter and Dianne Blanchard, students in the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School, mixing cookie batter. The class baked several...
Photograph

Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 10 21 1952
Description: A Shorewood schoolgirl puts on her coat following dancing class.
Photograph

Shorewood School Dancing Class

Date: 11 21 1952
Description: Five students, some from Randall School, at a Shorewood School dancing class.
Photograph

Vocational School Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. Margot Nelson, the teacher, is showing students Bertha Haack and Josephine Scheerer the technique of stuffing the body cavity of a turkey at a Vocatio...
Photograph

Students Publishing High School Newspaper

Date: 10 24 1955
Description: Central High School students, Nancee Meyers, Jean Loy, and Colenthia Hill working on an edition of the school newspaper, "Madison Mirror."

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: