Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 142

Photograph

International Harvester Employee

Date: 04 01 1915
Description: Old man wearing a suit and hat with his back against a brick wall. The man is likely an employee at International Harvester's Osborne Works. One of his leg...
Photograph

Model Posing with International Spirit of '76 Cadet Tractor

Date: 1976
Description: Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the...
Photograph

Men's Fashions

Date: 12 18 1966
Description: A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men.
Photograph

Darling Shop Clothing Models

Date: 11 06 1940
Description: Female clothing models, Beverly Muenchow and Eileen Regan, at the Darling Shop, located at 9 East Main Street. They are wearing skirts with blouses and sad...
Photograph

Darling Shop Clothing Models

Date: 11 06 1940
Description: Darling Shop, 9 East Main Street, female clothing models, Beverly Muenchow and Eileen Regan, one wearing sports outfit with trousers and the other wearing ...
Photograph

Coed Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchester's Department Store coed model, wearing a fur jacket, hat and purse, posing on the steps of a passenger train, with two pieces of luggage on the ...
Photograph

Woman Model on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 09 10 1936
Description: Woman model wearing checkerboard jacket, standing next to Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill. For: Kessenich's.
Photograph

Woman Model on Campus

Date: 09 10 1936
Description: Woman model wearing green dress posing near the Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill. For: Kessenich's.
Photograph

Helen King in New Rubber Bathing Suit

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflat...
Photograph

Miss King in Rubber Bathing Costume

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: Helen King, rear view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Company.
Photograph

Mrs. Mary DeRenzo

Date: 06 09 1933
Description: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, "Dean of the scrub women's crew" at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding the mop she used for thirty years.
Photograph

Janette Serrec with Bicycle

Date: 05 23 1933
Description: Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo...
Photograph

Woman Modeling Fur Coat at Kessenich's Store

Date: 07 12 1932
Description: Woman modeling a fur coat at Kessenich's store in the fur coat department. Other coats are displayed on racks and stands on the left and right.
Photograph

Miss America Models Shoes

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models Peacock brand pumps (shoes) at the Burdick & Murray Department Store.
Photograph

Miss America

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, standing in the Burdick & Murray department store modeling black pumps (shoes). Women are sitting in chairs behind her on th...
Photograph

George W. Hall, Jr., Circus Performer

Date: 1868
Description: George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots.
Photograph

International Harvester Factory Worker

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: African American factory worker in a ragged sweater standing outside International Harvester's Osborne Works (later Auburn Works).
Photograph

Two Linemen for Telephone Exchange

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga...
Photograph

Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: 
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright sitting on a stone balustrade.
Photograph

Portrait of Lumberjack

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin...

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: