Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 141-160 of 191

Photograph

Counted Thread Embroidery

Date: 08 04 1964
Description: A counted thread embroidery of a rooster, created by Elinor Schnore.
Photograph

Counted Thread Embroidery

Date: 08 04 1964
Description: Elinor Schnore with her counted thread embroidery of a totem pole mounted in a frame.
Photograph

Governor's Council on the Arts Honors Individuals at Governor's Executive Residence Dinner

Date: 10 08 1964
Description: Fourteen individuals, or schools, are honored by the Governor's Council of the Arts at a Governor's Executive Residence dinner. The recipients are honored ...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Homecoming Decorations 1964

Date: 10 30 1964
Description: Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Delta caught Michigan Spartans in this "No-Gain" pose depicted in the Homecoming decorations.
Photograph

Styrofoam Ball Christmas Ornaments

Date: 10 25 1964
Description: Decorated styrofoam balls for Christmas decorations.
Photograph

Booming Artificial Christmas Tree Market

Date: 12 17 1964
Description: Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th...
Photograph

Louis M. Hobbins House in Fuller's Woods

Date: 04 27 1965
Description: Old Rectory Sales of Grace Episcopal Chruch is in charge of the sale of furnishings of the historic Louis M. Hobbins house built by E.M. Fuller on the shor...
Photograph

Holy Name Seminary

Date: 05 27 1965
Description: Abstract art decorating the tabernacle at the new Holy Name Seminary.
Photograph

TWA Dogs

Date: 1982
Description: A woman is performing a headstand on her front lawn as an elderly woman is standing and watching from the sidewalk. A sign on the lawn reads: 'Start Under,...
Photograph

TWA Dogs Exhibition

Date: 1982
Description: Elizabeth Was is crouching inside two triangular walls open on one side. In front of her are two painted signs lying on the grass and read: 'Step Here' and...
Photograph

The Way House of Light

Date: 1982
Description: View looking up at the facade of a house. A sign at the bottom reads: "Atlantis" fashioned in wire. Above the sign is a painting that includes two male fac...
Photograph

Art Gallery

Date: 12 2013
Description: Postmodern works of art hanging, somewhat chaotically, on a corner wall. There are photographs of people combined with found object sculptures. Other sculp...
Photograph

Man Posing in Sid's Kitchen

Date: 
Description: A man is posing in profile in Sid's kitchen, carrying a bucket in his left hand and holding a towel over his right shoulder. On the wall in the background ...
Photograph

Astrological Clock in Sid's Kitchen

Date: 
Description: Non-functioning clock on the wall of Sid's kitchen. The clock consists 12 ceramic plates denoting each hour in Romain numerals and decorated with neoclassi...
Photograph

Painted Plow

Date: 
Description: Hand-painted plow, with design of flowers in Sid's backyard, next to the Tea House and the base of a sculpture.
Painting

"The Seven Lively Arts" Detail

Date: 
Description: A detail of "The Seven Lively Arts," a 16 x 10 foot ceiling fresco in The Fauerbach Brewing Company (Brewery).
Photograph

Sid Sitting in Living Room

Date: 
Description: Sid sitting on a couch reading a book in his living room amidst Asian furnishings and objects.
Photograph

Artwork in Shape of a Clock

Date: 
Description: A decorative clock with roman numerals on plates, signs of the zodiac, and other illustrations displayed on the kitchen wall of Sid's house.
Photograph

Lizard Cannon Sculpture

Date: 
Description: Sculpture of a cannon in the shape of an imaginary dragon on top of a television set in Sid's living room. Behind the sculpture is a bookcase full of books...
Photograph

Art in Sid's Living Room

Date: 
Description: View of a corner of Sid's living room. There is a painting by Sid of a pine tree in a mountainscape hanging on the wall. Below it is a bookshelf with sever...

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: