Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 141-160 of 2012

Historical Essay

Synagogue Window

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Window from "The White Shul", a Sheboygan, Wisconsin synagogue, c. 1910. (Museum object #2006.108.1.1)
Historical Essay

Bemis Riddell Chaise Lounge

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Bemis Riddell chaise lounge custom made for the company owner, Albert Bemis, c. 1925 (reupholstered, c. 1940). (Museum Object #1984.319.1A-B)
Historical Essay

The Wisconsin Free Library Commission - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin
Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

20th Century Immigration

The History of Modern Immigration in Wisconsin
Discover the economic and cultural changes that brought new immigrants to Wisconsin in the 20th century.
Historical Essay

Lucy Baras - Oral History Interview, 1980

Learn about and listen to Holocaust survivor Lucy Baras tell her story.
Photograph

Child at Terry Andrae State Park

Date: 1938
Description: Small child standing on the shoreline of a sandy beach, looking out at the waves, at Terry Andrae State Park on Lake Michigan.
Map or Atlas

Sheboygan Harbor Wisconsin

Date: 1921
Description: This map is part of the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes. The map shows Sheboygan Harbor on the shore of Lake Michigan and the Sheboygan River...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sheboygan Wisconsin: Use District Map

Date: 1935
Description: This map created by the Sheboygan City Engineer department shows five different types of land use in the city in 1935. A legend in the bottom right corner ...
Map or Atlas

Proposed Campus Group Chapel Heights College Sheboygan Wisconsin

Date: 1900
Description: This map is a bird's-eye-view of Chapel Heights College showing the proposed grouping of campus buildings. The bottom right corner features a small inset m...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Sheboygan Wisconsin

Date: 1840
Description: This is a plat map of Sheboygan showing the Sheboygan River and Lake Michigan. Streets are labeled and plats are numbered in quadrants. Some points of inte...
Photograph

Men Preparing a Feast

Date: 08 28 1930
Description: Gathering of men at a “Shport [sic] Outing”. The men are standing around a barbecue pit, preparing a feast of fish and corn.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park Recreational Grounds

Date: 
Description: Recreational grounds near the beach at Terry Andrae State Park. A woman and a child are on a swing set. There are teeter totters on the left.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park Beach

Date: 
Description: White sand and breaking waves along the beach at Terry Andrae State Park.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park Beach

Date: 
Description: Beach at Terry Andrae State Park. There is a wooden boardwalk in the foreground.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park Beach

Date: 
Description: View along shoreline showing the wide sandy swimming beach along Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park. Two people are on the shoreline.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park Beach

Date: 
Description: The bathhouse and wooden boardwalks at the swimming beach, Terry Andrae State Park.
Photograph

S.A. Tifft and Co. Bicycle Livery

Date: 06 1899
Description: Two men and a woman pose on a wooden sidewalk in front of a bicycle livery with three bicycles. An awning is folded above the storefront, and signs and mer...
Photograph

Terry Andrae Park Shelter House

Date: 
Description: An interior view of the shelter house in Terry Andrae Park, including a stone fireplace. Terry Andrae is one part of the Kohler-Andrae Park system.
Photograph

Terry Andrae State Park

Date: 
Description: Two men are holding onto the newly installed directional sign at Terry Andrae State Park. There is a building on the left. The park was established in 1927...
Print

Say It — Sheboygan Makes It

Date: 
Description: Stamp advertising the city of Sheboygan, specifically its many industries. In addition to the stamp title, the stamp includes an illustration of factories,...

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: