Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 83

Book or Pamphlet

Keystone Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Keystone line of tillage implements. Features an illustration from behind of a man standing o...
Photograph

Kingsley House

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior view of the Kingsley house with family in front. It has tall and narrow double-hung windows that are grouped in twos and etched. Carpenter's lace ...
Photograph

The Koshkonong Hotel

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Koshkonong Hotel (later the Lakehouse Inn), a stone and brick hotel with lots of windows, a parapet roof and a small structure on roof, on Mapl...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Farmhouse and Outbuildings

Date: 1921
Description: Farmhouse and outbuildings in the distance. A road is in the foreground.
Photograph

Farmhouse with Windmill

Date: 1943
Description: Side view of a farmhouse, with a shed and clothesline in the distance. An Aermotor windmill is near the house.
Photograph

Nelson Dewey Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Nelson Dewey farm, showing the house built on the site after Dewey's death. The original house built by Dewey burned in 1873.
Photograph

Trailing Plow with Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: View across field towards a man using a Farmall H tractor with a 2-furrow trailing plow to work in a field. A farmhouse and several outbuildings are in th...
Photograph

The Onthank Residence

Date: 
Description: In the 1870s, Almira Morill Onthank converted the home into a guest house, and the residence stayed in the Onthank family for over a century.
Photograph

Two-Story Victorian Brick Farmhouse

Date: 1930
Description: A two-story Victorian brick farmhouse with eave brackets, bay windows and a front porch with fretwork railing. The Baraboo bluffs are visible in the distan...
Painting

Farm Painting

Date: 
Description: Farm painting of the Pierson Young residence.
Photograph

Danville Schoolhouse

Date: 05 1925
Description: View across road of the front facade of a rural schoolhouse. A small dog is lying on the entrance's front steps, and the sign above reads: "Liberty School ...
Photograph

Farmhouse Garden

Date: 09 1923
Description: View from field of a farm property, including the farmhouse garden.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1916
Description: Rear view of a man leading two horses pulling a mower across a field. In the background is a farmhouse, a barn, and several other farm buildings.
Photograph

IH Demonstration Farm at Gull Lake

Date: 12 1928
Description: View from field of International Harvester demonstration farm located in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. The roof of the barn of barn has hand-inked lette...
Photograph

Rock Scenery

Date: 
Description: View of house and farm buildings in Ableman with a rocky hill in the background.
Photograph

An Old Landmark — Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of buildings in Effinger Park. A dirt road leads up to the house where two cars are parked. There is a picnic table and a large tree in the f...
Photograph

Mullen's Lodge

Date: 1938
Description: View of platform cabins arranged in a row along an open field.
Photograph

Cottages

Date: 1910
Description: View across fields of two cottages with wrap-around screened porches standing in front of a row of evergreen trees. The house on the right has a second sto...

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: