Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FORMAT_TYPE of object
Filter: Subject of persons
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument to learn that Grace, in an... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | You came to know that book by its covered distance, well remembered by the measure of the trudging barefoot mile |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A scabbard and officer's militia sword that once belonged to Major John Rountree (a founder of Platteville) during the Black Hawk War in the summer of 1832... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead to tell us who we are and what the odds. Don't count; a promise is no more than just a s... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings, the quick-step dried and gone to the bone. Embrace the wall and face away from trouble in the winter ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction, letting automation by to wipe the chimneys clean of issues and make horizons in the sky |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | We always know what day it is Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee that stepson drives along the road and all the dog... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Front cover and first page of cocktail menu from the Indian Room, Hotel Monona. The cover features a profile illustration of the head of an American Indian... |
| Date: | 05 03 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Menu for an Aloha Dinner on the Japanese passenger ship, M.S. Chichibu Maru, printed on a folding paper and bamboo hand fan, with painted blue irise... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Buttonhole camera owned and used by Stanley C. Hanks, a Madison realtor. The Concealed Vest camera, manufactured by the Stirn brothers, was used between 18... |
| Date: | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Two of Clubs displays a drawing of "The Johnstown Flood," a castle like buil... |
| Date: | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Seven of Spades displays a drawing of "The Airship." A round building with a... |
| Date: | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Three of Hearts displays a drawing of the "Beautiful Orient." Two obelisks f... |
| Date: | 1832 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Copper plate physiognotrace of Carsten Tank, the father of Nils Otto Tank of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Subject faces left (proper right) wearing a coat, tie, a... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Portrait of Sid sitting in a chair with his son, Steve, on his lap. Behind them is a sink near a window. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Collage of a color newsprint comic of a photographer, who is operating a fantastic "Rube Goldberg" type camera with innumerable gadgets attached. The photo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An original poem and watercolor paintings of colored maple leaves, all by Louise Mears Fargo, decorate an album page with a photograph of her three childre... |
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:
