May 2009 Highlights
Five Wisconsin History Makers Honored at Gala
The Wisconsin Historical Society honored the lifetime achievements of five top leaders with ties to the state on May 27 during its Fourth Annual Wisconsin History Makers Gala at Milwaukee's historic Pfister Hotel. The Wisconsin Historical Foundation produced the event...
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Posted May 29, 2009
The 1913 Teasdale Vice Committee Investigation
The Teasdale Vice Committee collection includes some of the photographs used as exhibits in its 1913 vice investigation, including images of dance halls, saloons and wine rooms. Some of these photographs were taken by Homell Hart. The Milwaukee City Club...
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Posted May 25, 2009
Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Letters Go Online
The Wisconsin Historical Society has recently published on its website more than a dozen letters written during the Civil War by relatives of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of Little House on the Prairie and other popular books for young...
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Posted May 21, 2009
Online Architecture and History Inventory
Since the mid-1970s, the Wisconsin Historical Society's Historic Preservation Office has collected records for more than 130,000 buildings, structures, sites, objects and historic districts throughout Wisconsin. The inventory records contain information about the property's architecture and history as well as...
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Posted May 18, 2009
At Work and at Play at Wade House
The staff at Wade House, the Society's 1860s stagecoach inn and historic site in Greenbush, is getting ready for spring — and they could use a little help from their friends. On Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17, the historic site...
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Posted May 14, 2009
Rituals of Spring at Old World Wisconsin
Just as Wisconsin's 19th-century farmers did when spring rolled around, farmhands at Old World Wisconsin will be busy in the fields on Saturday, May 16, during the outdoor museum's annual Rituals of Spring event. Visitors can expect to see farmers...
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Posted May 11, 2009
Breakfast in a Victorian Kitchen at Villa Louis
Nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin's second oldest city, Prairie du Chien, the Villa Louis Victorian country estate provides a unique and authentic window to the rarified world of one wealthy family's day-to-day lives of luxury...
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Posted May 7, 2009
Team Wisconsin, Ready for Nationals
Fifty Wisconsin students who competed in the statewide finals of National History Day on May 2 will represent the Badger state at the national event June 14-18 in College Park, Maryland. Students came to the Wisconsin Historical Society headquarters in...
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Posted May 4, 2009
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