Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 37

Photograph

Gates of Heaven and Floral Parade

Date: 
Description: A horse-drawn carriage decorated for a floral parade on West Washington Avenue. The carriage is passing in front of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (the buil...
Photograph

Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

Date: 
Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
Photograph

Three Women

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph. The woman in front is displaying a Muskellunge, caught in Long Lake, on the residential lawn of M. Newman. Two other woman are standing behind...
Photograph

Young Woman in Clearing

Date: 
Description: A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Parade Carriage

Date: 
Description: Horse-drawn carriage elaborately decorated with flowers appears to be stopped off parade route. The carriage is carrying four women wearing formal dresses ...
Photograph

Home of Eric Hattstrom

Date: 
Description: Possibly an anniversary group portrait of the couple seated in the center, with four people posed on each side of them. The women in the center holds flowe...
Photograph

Procession at Bryn Mawr

Date: 
Description: A man leads a procession with a bull carrying a long cart decorated with flowers. Women process along the sides of the cart and a band marches on the road ...
Photograph

Two Women and Piano

Date: 1900
Description: Two well-dressed young women pose in front of a piano. One holds a fan in her lap, the other holds a piece of sheet music titled "When We Were Two Little B...
Photograph

Beautiful Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: A woman stands with two white dogs among the trees at Effinger Park. The park features benches, a pump, a lawn swing, a gazebo and three cabins.
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 
Description: View from a distance of the train depot. On the left a locomotive is parked along the train platform where a group of people are standing. In the center is...
Photograph

Parade Float

Date: 1905
Description: A parade float elaborately decorated with flowers and pulled by four robed horses is traveling west along East Doty Street, with the Central (Fess) Hotel i...
Photograph

Webb TB Album: A Page of Pals

Date: 
Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with a cut-out of...
Photograph

Couple Before a Rose-Covered Cottage

Date: 
Description: Illustration drawing, completed around 1825, of a couple standing before a rose-covered cottage. A dog is lying on the ground by their feet.
Photograph

Woman and Girls at Milliner Shop

Date: 
Description: View of a woman posing sitting on the porch of a wooden building and sewing a hat, probably a milliner in front of her shop. A small girl is sitting in a r...
Photograph

People in Front of Frame House

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of people posing in the yard in front of a frame house, with a porch and a hand-pump. There are three women sitting on the left, and a small...
Photograph

Garden and Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: View from garden towards two women posing standing near the fence for a garden. Behind them, three men are displaying four horses. Another person in the ba...
Photograph

Grand Avenue

Date: 09 1900
Description: View down Grand Avenue. Near a streetcar is the city's Civil War memorial, erected in 1898 by John Conway.
Photograph

Filling Station

Date: 
Description: View from street of the Standard Oil filling station with Red Crown gasoline pumps. Two attendants are standing near an entrance with a sign for a postal t...
Photograph

Women in Buggy

Date: 
Description: Two women posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a horse wearing blinders and a fly-net. The two women have turned sideways in their seat, and one of them is ...
Photograph

Girl Scouts at the Louisville Kentucky Zoo with an IH School Bus

Date: 1990
Description: Group of Brownie Girl Scouts and their leader are posing next to an International school bus at the Louisville zoo. In the background zookeepers and childr...

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: