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Postcard

Main Street, Looking West

Date: 1907
Description: View along sidewalk of Main Street, with pedestrians on the sidewalk and walking across the street. Storefronts line both sides of the street. Caption read...
Postcard

Cook Street

Date: 1905
Description: Colorized postcard of a view of Cook Street. Caption reads: "Cook Street, Portage, Wis."
Photograph

Children on Wagon

Date: 1919
Description: A young boy and girl are sitting in a wagon on a dirt road, while a man and woman are watching from the porch of a house in the background. The wagon is lo...
Photograph

Removing Fiber from Manila Plant

Date: 1910
Description: A man pulls fiber from the leaves of a manila plant in the Philippine Islands. Other men look on over his shoulder, and a dwelling or other structure is in...
Print

Holiday Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: A die cut holiday card with a red and white mitten clasping a green and white mitten. The background is gray with holly on the left and a poinsettia on the...
Book or Pamphlet

Adriance, Platt & Co. Foldout Card — Front

Date: 1900
Description: Accordion fold advertising card from Adriance, Platt & Company, manufacturers of Buckeye and Triumph farm machinery. Features illustrations on both sides o...
Photograph

Birdwatching at Horicon Marsh

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: Vel Phillips standing outdoors wearing a coat holding binoculars.
Photograph

Young Children Bugging and Hoeing Potatoes

Date: 1917
Description: Two young children working barefoot in a field. J.C. Allen.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Brigham Park Historic Marker

Date: 07 13 1955
Description: Mrs. Charles I. Brigham (left), and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Brigham, Jr., with her children Mark, Jonathan, and Elizabeth, standing and reading t...
Photograph

Ralph G. Plumb

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of Ralph Gordon Plumb (1881-1976), president of the Plumb & Nelson Company, seated at his desk. The company was a wholesale grocery business at 71...

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