Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 25

Photograph

Mathilde Franziska Anneke

Date: 
Description: Formal studio portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke wearing dark dress and coat.
Photograph

Keyes Family Children

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph, Kate, and William, the three children of Madison attorney, postmaster, and Republican Party boss Elisha W. Keyes and hi...
Photograph

Charles Christopher Parry, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Ro...
Photograph

Boys and Toy Airplane

Date: 1920
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron...
Photograph

Stewart Douglas House

Date: 11 15 1951
Description: Interior view of the living room at 811 Farwell Drive, including plants and vines in foreground. Homeowners Jean and Stewart Douglas are sitting and looki...
Photograph

Jaycette Style Show

Date: 02 09 1956
Description: Portrait of the two planners of the annual Jaycette style show held at the Wisconsin Union Theater. They include Rita Peterson, director of production, and...
Photograph

Unitarian Meeting House Curtain

Date: 
Description: This view of a holiday fund raising event in the auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society meeting house shows the woven curtai...
Photograph

Lorin Gillette

Date: 1947
Description: Indoor portrait of Lorin Gillette wearing a coat and leaning against a wall with his arms crossed.
Photograph

Unidentified European American Infant

Date: 
Description: An infant is sitting in a baby carriage in a room that has coats and umbrellas hanging near a chair on the right. Behind the infant is a curtain hanging in...
Photograph

Portrait of an Unknown Women

Date: 1899
Description: Full-length portrait of an unknown women standing in a doorway. The tall doorway has a drape on a pole just underneath a transom window or screen. A coat i...
Photograph

Edward Petersen

Date: 1900
Description: Edward Petersen at home, wearing a smoking jacket with quilted collar and cuffs. He is sitting in a wide doorway, hanging with tasseled draperies, holding ...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing for a fashion shoot. She is wearing a dark outfit with a fur-lined coat. She has a handbag on her right arm and...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing. She is wearing a coat over a dress and matching headscarf, and is holding sunglasses in her hand.
Photograph

Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress. She is also wearing earrings and elbow length gloves, and is holding a fur coat in her left hand...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the center. She is wearing heels and has a satin coat draped over he...
Photograph

Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the middle. She is also wearing a satin coat and earrings.
Photograph

Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman

Date: 1905
Description: Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman posing in a home on W. Washington Avenue. She is standing reading a document in a parlor with a piano.
Photograph

Joseph Oiyotte

Date: 
Description: Joseph Oiyotte is sitting on a sofa with a young child. A blanket with a Native American motif is on the sofa. On the left is a trophy on a table. In the b...
Photograph

Christmas Dinner

Date: 1922
Description: Four women and two men are sitting at a dining table. Forest Middleton, on the far left, is wearing a Japanese-style jacket. His wife, Leonore, is second f...
Photograph

Sheik

Date: 1930
Description: A man wearing a turban and cape with gold trim is standing and smiling in an open doorway, with a curtain hanging behind him and a pillow in front of his f...

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: