Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 41-60 of 314

Photograph

Governor Nelson Dewey House

Date: 1915
Description: View across road towards Governor Nelson Dewey's house.
Photograph

Governor Nelson Dewey House

Date: 1925
Description: View across road towards Governor Nelson Dewey's house.
Photograph

Madison Street

Date: 1915
Description: Madison Street in Lancaster.
Photograph

Mine Shaft

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a shaft house at a zinc mine.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1928
Description: View down dirt road. Houses are on the right. Further down the road are commercial buildings and automobiles.
Photograph

Nelson Dewey State Park

Date: 1958
Description: Nelson Dewey State Park (Cassville vicinity). Bridge construction near the park office which was built in the 1850s as a chicken house. The park was establ...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1906
Description: View down unpaved street of lined with commercial buildings. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks, and some snow is along the curbs. In the background is a hil...
Photograph

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view over rooftops of town. Handwritten message reads: "Arrived here today 4 p.m. Will work at mines about 2 miles from here. Expect to go to Plat...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1906
Description: View down sidewalk on the left side of an unpaved street. A brick building is in the foreground on the left. Dwellings are along the right, and snow is on ...
Postcard

Mining Operations

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville."
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1929
Description: View looking down sidewalk on the left of Main Street. A sign in the foreground reads: "Iowa Oil Co."
Photograph

Six-Roll Husker-Shredder

Date: 12 29 1929
Description: Two men work on the Will Rasque farm using a horse-drawn wagon and a six-roll husker-shredder.
Photograph

CCC Camp Scene

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp.
Photograph

Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
Photograph

Aerial View of Platteville

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: One of five aerial views of Platteville and surrounding countryside covered in snow.
Photograph

Aerial Views of Platteville

Date: 02 17 1949
Description: One of five aerial views of Platteville and surrounding countryside covered in snow.
Photograph

Aerial Photographs of Boscobel

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Aerial photographs of Boscobel, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Platteville Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the...
Photograph

South Lancaster Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This store, which was originally built in 1840 (and rebuilt after an 1877 fire) was bought in 1891, by Samuel Kerr who continued to sell sugar, flour, mola...
Photograph

Wrecked Automobile Remnants

Date: 08 19 1961
Description: Several wrecked automobiles lay on the edge of a wooded area. Shrubs grow around, and in, the automobile remains.

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: