Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 79

Photograph

Young Eagle

Date: 
Description: Posed portrait of Ho-Chunk man, Young Eagle, also called Chack-Scheb-Nee-Neik-Ah.
Photograph

Valda Valkyrien

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark."
Photograph

Juliette Gerke

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Juliette Gerke, a 9-year-old twin, playing the piano.
Photograph

Twin Girls at Piano

Date: 03 29 1944
Description: Young twin sisters sitting together at the piano.
Photograph

Raquel Torres at Bastick Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres has her hair dressed by Rose Bastick at Bastick Beauty Shop, 18 E. Mifflin Street.
Photograph

Singers Reading "The Capital Times"

Date: 08 19 1931
Description: Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
Photograph

H.S. Manchester, Inc., Toni Wave Display Window

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., Toni wave display window featuring boxes of Toni permanent wave product and a cartoon of a woman hanging over a tree branch with the ...
Photograph

Chapelle with Arm Band

Date: 03 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's...
Photograph

Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
Photograph

Mae Marsh Publicity Still for "The Birth of a Nation"

Date: 1915
Description: Publicity still from the silent film The Birth of a Nation of Mae Marsh with her hands held to her face.
Photograph

Fred MacMurray and Maleta Martin MacMurray

Date: 1911
Description: Studio portrait of future actor Fred MacMurray at age 3, posed with his mother Maleta Martin MacMurray.
Photograph

Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, John Noble, and George Hill on the set of Sunshine Alley

Date: 1917
Description: The actors, cameraman, and director discuss the script on location for the silent film "Sunshine Alley" (Goldwyn, 1917). On the right is a Bell & Howell mo...
Photograph

Irene Castle and Rastus

Date: 1915
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Irene Castle holding her pet monkey Rastus.
Photograph

Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A woman poses with a mirror and powder puff. She wears a bangled costume and dance slippers.
Photograph

Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s...
Photograph

Woman at Keyboard

Date: 1920
Description: A woman in an old style dress stands in profile by a keyboard instrument, with her left knee resting on a Gothic Revival chair. A candle is burning in a br...
Photograph

Woman with Basket

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses with a basket of flowers over one arm. She wears an old-fashioned costume and stands in front of a painted backdrop which mimics a ston...
Photograph

Angel in the Woods

Date: 1930
Description: A model posed as an angel sits on the ground in front of a sylvan backdrop, warming her hands over a fire. She wears wings and a dress of diaphanous materi...

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: