Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 65

Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
Photograph

Businessmen Watch Construction

Date: 1969
Description: Several businessmen converse with each other while observing the World Trade Center construction.
Photograph

100,000th Crankcase at Melrose Park Works

Date: 03 1974
Description: A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ...
Photograph

Man Operating Monotype Keyboard

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Man typing on a monotype keyboard, possibly in a Harvester Press production area.
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Officials

Date: 06 17 1949
Description: Group portrait of the officials for the 1949 Soap Box Derby. Left to right, seated: Sgt. Ed Roman, of the Marine recruiting station; Ralph Hult, president ...
Photograph

Frank Arthur Sillman

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Frank Arthur Sillman, Milwaukee accountant.
Photograph

Chairmen with Harvester War Exhibit

Date: 1944
Description: Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, speaks to W.O. Maxwell of the Consumer Relations Department and chairman of the Exhibitors' Committ...
Photograph

Madison Advertising Club Women Plan Club Dinner Program

Date: 01 14 1952
Description: For the first time in the history of the Madison Advertising Club, the women members are planning the dinner and program to be held at the Hoffman House. H...
Poster

Triple-Diamond Club

Date: 1932
Description: Poster featuring head-and-shoulder portraits of Eastern district members of the 1931 Triple-Diamond Club, a group honoring top performing International tru...
Photograph

Edgar A. Spees

Date: 07 17 1951
Description: Portrait of Edgar A. Spees, new Director of Dane County Red Cross, sitting at a desk.
Photograph

Men Looking at Papers at Desk

Date: 04 1929
Description: Professor Perry G. Holden (right) and George W. Anstrand sitting behind a desk and looking at papers.
Photograph

Testing Cub Cadet on Railroad Tracks

Date: 06 1961
Description: A man drives an International Harvester Cub Cadet along the inside of railroad tracks to test the machine. The photograph was probably taken outside of Int...
Photograph

Men with Cub Cadets

Date: 06 1961
Description: Three men stand around International Cub Cadet lawn tractors at the Louisville Works factory while consulting papers on a clipboard. Boxes are piled in the...
Photograph

Testing a Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: A man drives an International Harvester Cub Cadet over railroad tracks to test the machine's steering mechanism and axle. Louisville Works factory building...
Print

Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
Photograph

Rosser Reeves

Date: 1959
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Rosser Reeves, holding a cigarette and wearing a bow tie.
Photograph

First Tire Made at Gillette Tire Plant

Date: 10 21 1944
Description: The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber...
Photograph

Raw Tire in the Mold

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: The first raw tire is placed in a mold at Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are R.L. Chatterson, Julius Berkley, A.B. Smith, M.O. Wick, J.W. Harry Ku...
Photograph

Bagging a Tire

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hanse...
Photograph

Tire Vacuum Expander

Date: 10 19 1944
Description: Seven men pose together as the first raw tire at the Gillette Tire Plant is put into a vacuum expander.

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: