Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Subject of weather
Filter: Subject of human settlements
Filter: Subject of coats
| Date: | 02 15 1987 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns. |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom... |
| Date: | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 02 07 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Accident scene between truck driven by Clyde Holmes and Donald Marking, age eight, who was struck and killed while sledding. View shows the alley between 1... |
| Date: | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 02 25 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o... |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from across street of a dentist office and Baptist Church along a road. Two horse-drawn carriages are being driven in opposite directions on the road. |
| Date: | 1904 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Numerous men stand on and around a large pile of logs and a sled stacked with logs pulled by four horses at the C & M Ry Company's camp. There is snow on t... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of about two dozen male city employees, three carrying shovels, stand in front of the double doors of a large brick building. There is a wooden wal... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across street of four men posing in front of storefronts on Main Street, including M.A. Batcheller, a barber shop, and clothiers under the offices of ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A man and three boys are posing while standing on a handcar at the Fitchburg depot. In the background a man is standing near a horse-drawn wagon. |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
|---|---|
| Description: | "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 02 1925 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four men with their collars turned up against the cold stand beside the Fayette Tourists Lodge. The Fayette post office was housed in the building. On the ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A winter view of the depot with a passenger train. Passengers are on the platform. The engineer is leaning out the window of the locomotive. In the backgro... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A man in motion moves upon good reason. To create disorder he must stop and settle down. |
| Date: | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View down snowy hill towards a team of U.S. Army Engineers traveling the Russian countryside in horse-drawn sleighs for the purpose of constructing a map o... |
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: