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Drawing

Lakeside House

Date: 
Description: Illustration of the Lakeside House.
Photograph

Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson

Date: 08 13 1945
Description: Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson. Elizabeth will be attending the Potter School in Tucson, Arizona. Hobart will return to the Middlesex School in Conco...
Photograph

Catholic Women's Club Officers

Date: 08 06 1949
Description: Group portrait of the new officers of the Catholic Women's Club of Madison at the Edgewater Hotel. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Raymond (Anna) Hilsenhoff...
Photograph

Sorority Marionette Show and Tea Party

Date: 06 26 1950
Description: Six sorority alumnae who were hostesses for the marionette party at the Edgewater Hotel pose for a portrait around a banquet table. Left to right are: Mrs....
Photograph

David & Florence Bade Residence

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Living room of the David & Florence Bade residence at 5701 Winnequah Road in Frost Woods, Monona. Mrs. Bade and one of her two sons are sitting on a pale y...
Photograph

Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
Photograph

Elizabeth Johnson Pfeifer and Son

Date: 07 13 1953
Description: Elizabeth Johnson Pfeifer, Milwaukee, and her nine month old son, John Stephan Jr.
Photograph

Wisconsin Women's Golf Association State Tournament

Date: 07 13 1954
Description: Irene Dettloff, chairman of the junior golfers and president of the Blackhawk Women's Association, and Vera Heyer, chairman of the equipment for the 42nd a...
Photograph

American Business Women's Association Regional Brunch

Date: 07 22 1956
Description: Visiting in front of a window overlooking Lake Mendota at the Edgewater Hotel during the regional brunch of the American Business Women's Association are A...
Photograph

Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Mrs. William Bowersox of Juneau pausing indoors for a look out at Lake Mendota before attending a session for women at the annual University of Wisconsin F...
Photograph

Lake Kegonsa from Amundson's Store

Date: 1929
Description: A view across water of Lake Kegonsa's shoreline with cottages, docks and trees. A boy is in a rowboat near a boathouse in the foreground.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

Date: 
Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own
Photograph

View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking north. There are dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and a c...
Photograph

Another View from the Terrace

Date: 07 2014
Description: View from the top of Monona Terrace looking down towards the large arched windows. There are plants and trees in the concrete planters that are part of the...
Photograph

Sears, Roebuck & Co. Luncheon at Edgewater Hotel

Date: 11 03 1954
Description: Representatives of business, labor and government at a pre-luncheon gathering to celebrate the opening of a new Sears Store. Looking out over Lake Mendota ...
Photograph

Holt Children Painting the Cupola

Date: 08 16 1909
Description: W.A. Holt is watching his children paint the cupola which was moved to the Island from the Lakewood school house. From left to right: Jeannette Holt is pai...
Photograph

Pine Lake House in Winter

Date: 1929
Description: An elevated winter view looking downshill towards the shingle style summer home of Herbert P. Brumder, the youngest son of George and Henriette Brandhorst ...
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs Painting in the Boathouse on Lake Namakagon

Date: 11 1959
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is seated at a table next to windows in the upper level of the boathouse, a paintbrush in her hand and various painting supplies arr...

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