Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 44

Photograph

Registering to Vote

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall.
Photograph

Woman Curler

Date: 01 24 1963
Description: Elderly woman taking a break from a curling. She is a member of the "curling Scots" who toured the United States in 1963.
Photograph

Italian Women's Mutual Society Banquet

Date: 02 23 1941
Description: Italian Women's Mutual Society 7th anniversary banquet in the Italian Workingmen's Club building, 914 Regent Street, Greenbush.
Photograph

Night School

Date: 05 1940
Description: Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House.
Photograph

Newlyweds in the Kitchen

Date: 09 08 1948
Description: Dad Farmanfarma and his wife, Sylvia, in their kitchen in their home that has Swiss, Persian and American influences.
Photograph

Mrs. Isabel Llerandi and Her Five Younger Children

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Reunited after seven years of wartime separation, Mrs. Isabel Llerandi and her five younger children spent a week together in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Henry ...
Photograph

Remodeled Clothes for Displaced Persons

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charlie Saunders and Family

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man, and two Ho-Chunk women. The man is wearing a military hat and suit j...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of John Hazen Hill

Date: 1910
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man with a beard posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. He is smoking a pipe and holding a cane in his left ...
Photograph

Wisconsin High School Foreign Students

Date: 12 14 1949
Description: Group portrait of students who have been granted visas from foreign lands to study at Wisconsin High. Left to right: Robert Dawn, Shanghai, China; June Bin...
Photograph

Neils Lassen

Date: 03 05 1952
Description: Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo...
Photograph

Governor Kohler and Austrian Chancellor Figl

Date: 05 21 1952
Description: Governor Walter Kohler, (left) chats with Chancellor Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor, during the latter's visit to Madison. Dr. Figl, on a 16-day visit t...
Photograph

Visiting French Journalists

Date: 04 24 1952
Description: Visiting French journalists on a U.S. tour arranged by the Department of Defense, had a surprise dinner meeting with Claudine Canetti, Paris (center), a j...
Photograph

Bettina Bjorksten

Date: 12 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Bettina Bjorksten, an opera singer and teacher in Madison and other cities. Her family migrated from Germany to Brazil when Naziism became 'une...
Photograph

Christmas with Foreign Students

Date: 12 14 1954
Description: Josephine Chance (lower right), of Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, is shown wrapping presents for "Boxing Day," a December 26th observance day on which Engli...
Photograph

Gladys Cooper Publicity Still

Date: 1942
Description: Publicity still of actress Gladys Cooper. Caption reads: Gladys Cooper in Guthrie McClintic's production of Emlyn Williams' hit play "The Morning Star" at ...
Photograph

Eric Blore Publicity Still

Date: 1937
Description: Publicity still of actor Eric Blore.
Photograph

Belgian Exchange Student

Date: 12 10 1956
Description: Georges Thomsin (left), from Liege, Belgium, showing Dick Trappe how Christmas decorations are made in Belgium. Both are students at Monona Grove High Scho...
Poster

Film Festival Rotterdam: Guests of '87

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advertising filmmakers in attendance at the 1987 Film Festival Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The poster shows 49 photographs of the 53 filmmakers. ...
Photograph

European Freshmen Football Players

Date: 09 21 1959
Description: Fred Jacoby, University of Wisconsin football coaching staff, left, talks to Wisconsin freshmen football recruits. Neither had never seen a football game u...

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: