Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 75

Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements with six color illustrations. The largest is of a portrait of a woman holding flowers. The other color...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
Poster

McCormick Advertising Poster

Date: 1902
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin...
Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog...
Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve...
Poster

Osborne Harvesting Machinery Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf...
Photograph

Gemini Hero

Date: 01 1967
Description: Greeting astronaut James A. Lovell (4th from the left) and his wife at the airport are Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles (2nd from the left) and Mrs. Do...
Photograph

"American Girl" Movie Group

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: "American Girl" movie group with pilot in front of airplane at the Pennco Field (Royal Airport).
Book or Pamphlet

Corn King Manure Spreader Catalog Cover

Date: 1912
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Corn King line of manure spreaders. Features a color illustration of a farmer in a field with...
Book or Pamphlet

Randolph Header Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Randolph header manufactured by the Craver and Steele Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of farme...
Poster

Plano Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester's Plano line of harvesting machinery showing a woman with a bouquet of red flowers and a fancy hat. Includes...
Photograph

Leslie L. Lamb Family

Date: 12 14 1947
Description: Group portrait of Leslie L. Lamb family on the occasion of the Lamb's 50th wedding anniversary. Portrait includes Leslie L. and Jennie Lamb, their sons Le...
Postcard

Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 1960
Description: Administration Building. A two-story building with an sign and a symbol of a tall beer of glass flanked by two stalks of a plant on the front entrance of t...
Photograph

Scout Travel Top

Date: 1961
Description: A woman sits in the passenger seat of a International Harvester Scout 80 4x4 travel top vehicle parked in a floral setting.
Photograph

Police Chief McCormick Testimonial Dinner

Date: 01 05 1949
Description: "Roundy" Coughlin sitting between retired Police Chief William H. McCormick (left) and his successor, Chief Bruce Weatherly, at a testimonial dinner for th...
Photograph

Anniversary of JFK Assassination

Date: 11 1964
Description: Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat...
Photograph

Zona Gale

Date: 1920
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) standing near a window and holding a rose in her left hand.
Photograph

Grain Cutting

Date: 1944
Description: Richard and Ralph Quinney, posing for a photo with their father, Floyd Quinney with corn knives and a scythe.
Photograph

Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
Photograph

Telephone Operator

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard.

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: