Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Women
Filter: Subject of indoor photography
Filter: Subject of dwellings
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
| Date: | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner with his History Seminar in an alcove of the Historical Society rooms in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, about 1893-1894. Back ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
| Date: | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ellen Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Nell), co-founder of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Jane Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Jen), co-owner of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Description: | General office of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company in the Mitchell Building in Milwaukee. Left to right: the individual seated in left ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress. |
| Date: | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nina Sturgis Dousman, wife of H. Louis Dousman, standing behind a chair. Born April 20, 1852; died July 25, 1930. |
| Date: | 1866 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Full-length portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, standing near a chair. The wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Description: | College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner. |
| Date: | 1894 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
| Date: | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background. |
| Date: | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Assembly Speaker's desk, showing an unidentified woman, probably a tourist, standing by the Speaker's chair. In front of the Speaker's desk are the clerks'... |
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:
