Skip to main content

click zoom to display a high-res image
Photographs

Duckwitz Painted Mailbox

Image

A mailbox, painted with likenesses of animals, insects, and plants, at the Duckwitz residence at 5040 Lake Mendota Drive.

Date Created:
August 22, 1971
Creator:
Potter, James T.

Publication Information

Creator
Potter, James T.
Date Created
August 22, 1971

Physical Description

Format
Image

Collection Information

Copyright Information

Copyright Status
COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED
Unique ID
W0131SE
Legacy ID
WHi 35610

Image

Digital Collections

Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
 
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.

View Our Curated Collections

Attribution

For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier. 

The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.

For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.

 

 

Accessing Collections

The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.

Plan Your Visit

Photographs
Red Caboose Day Care Mural

Red Caboose Day Care Mural

March 20, 1977

A mural painted on the side of the Red Caboose Day Care Center at 654 Williamson Street. Images in the mural include children playing, grasshoppers, a turtle, and other animals.

View
Photographs
Athena Mural

Athena Mural

February 23, 1975

Three-story tall painting of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, that decorates the rear wall of a State Street restaurant.

View
Photographs
Senate Bar

Senate Bar

February 21, 1971

Exterior view of the Senate Bar at 188 North Pinckney Street which shows its unusual brickwork and elaborate Gothic windows.

View
Photographs
Oriel Window

Oriel Window

January 22, 1974

Ornate oriel window on a building at 10 South Carroll Street.

View
Photographs
Paisan's Porta Bella

Paisan's Porta Bella

1971

Exterior view of the Italian restaurant Paisan's, which has a miniature Renaissance garden just inside the arched entrance.

View
Photographs
Painted Window

Painted Window

September 28, 1975

A window painted with religious symbols, including a dove (the Holy Ghost), in the Upper Room Fellowship coffee house at 420 State Street.

View
Go to top
Wisconsin Historical Society
Search Dropdown