Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 26

Photograph

Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon

Date: 1935
Description: Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi...
Photograph

Men Delivering Leisy's Beer from International Truck

Date: 1935
Description: Two men are rolling Leisy's beer barrels from an International truck on a downtown street. The truck was owned by Leisy Brewery.
Photograph

Milton House Cabin

Date: 1935
Description: A view of a cabin and other buildings on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. ...
Photograph

Milton Log Cabin Behind the Milton House

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the cabin on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was buil...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1935
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting with her hands clasped. She is wearing a beaded head band, a dark b...
Photograph

White Star Bakery

Date: 1935
Description: Two International trucks used by the White Star Bakery are parked outside the bakery's storefront at 1473 Main Street. Each truck's driver stands beside hi...
Photograph

Hostess Truck at Standard Oil Station

Date: 1935
Description: J.P. Whalen of the Continental Baking Company loads an International truck marked: "Hostess Cake" with boxes outside the Hilltop Market service station.
Photograph

Clam Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view across road of people and automobiles in front of homes and businesses along a dirt road. In the background is a local grocery store, tavern ...
Photograph

Dock at Log Cabin Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: A view down the stairway on a steep hill with a rock wall at the dock on Buskey Bay (not Lake Millicent). Boats and an adult and child are visible on the d...
Photograph

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1935
Description: A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ...
Photograph

After the Fire

Date: 1935
Description: Two logging roads diverge in a stand of burned jack pine trees, dividing the scene into three parts. In the background, near the left branch of the road, t...
Photograph

Oshkosh Trading Post

Date: 1935
Description: Two men and a woman are walking from a parked automobile toward the covered porch of the Oshkosh Trading Post, a low, log building on the Menominee Indian ...
Photograph

The Sayner Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of a tennis and a shuffleboard court, with Plum Lake in the background. Four men are playing doubles tennis, while other men are playing shuf...
Photograph

Poling a Canoe

Date: 1935
Description: The description on the negative envelope reads: "David Sample, guide at Brule, Wisconsin, taking a tourist down the fast moving waters of the Brule River."...
Photograph

Out for Sunday Dinner

Date: 1935
Description: View across snowy road towards men and women posing in front of Idlewild Lodge, a two-story wood framed structure with log siding on the first floor, and a...
Photograph

Germania Building

Date: 1935
Description: View from intersection towards a taxi and several other automobiles parked in front of the Brumder Building. Flags and flag-inspired bunting decorate the f...
Photograph

Norris Dam Under Construction

Date: 1935
Description: An elevated, panoramic view of the construction of the Norris Dam. Portions of the image are labeled.
Photograph

Norris Dam Under Construction (Looking Upstream)

Date: 1935
Description: Panoramic view of the construction of the Norris Dam, looking upstream. On the left the text reads: "West Bank," and on the right it reads: "East Bank."
Photograph

Old Faithful Inn

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the 1904 Old Faithful Inn, located in Yellowstone National Park. An example of "rustic resort architecture," the inn has several wings, including...
Photograph

Geyser Basin

Date: 1935
Description: The photographer's two sons, Philip, left, and Herbert E. Brumder are standing near a steaming pool in one of Yellowstone's geyser basins. There are cars p...

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: