Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 31

Print

William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1899
Description: Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom...
Photograph

Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 1944
Description: Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo.
Photograph

Pearl Buyers

Date: 
Description: Probable group of pearl buyers posed curbside. The partial wall of the building behind the men has a window and the bricks are painted with an advertisemen...
Photograph

Weber Home Bakery

Date: 1918
Description: Two middle-aged men standing in front of the window of the Weber [Ho]me Bakery.
Photograph

Sons of Conrad Schmitt

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Sherwin Gillett's brothers-in-law. They are: Charles, Alfred, Louis, Gustav, Otto and Herbert.
Photograph

Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Conrad Schmitt family. Sherwin and Emma (nee Schmitt) Gillett are standing on the far left. Sherwin is holding infant son, Lo...
Photograph

The Schmitt Brothers

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the six Schmitt brothers, Sherwin Gillett's brothers-in-law. In birth order they are: Charles (b. 1868), Alfred (b. 1870), Louis ...
Photograph

Loyalty Day Parade

Date: 04 06 1918
Description: Detail of a group of civilian men in the Loyalty Day parade.
Photograph

Group Portrait of Men at the Van Schaick Studio

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men dressed in suits posing standing on the sidewalk and steps in front of the brick building that houses American Express and th...
Photograph

Group of Men Standing Curbside

Date: 
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men dressed in suits posing standing in the street and on the curb in front of a wooden building.
Photograph

The Day's Catch

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background....
Photograph

Record Breaking Catch

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...
Photograph

Four Friends and a Dog in a Tent

Date: 
Description: Arnold Gesell (2nd from left) and three friends posing in the open doorway of a tent, with a dog resting in the grass. The men are wearing trousers, shirts...
Photograph

Mr. Oderbolz at the Brewery

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of a European American man posing standing outside a brick building. Behind him a European American woman and man are standing looking out...
Photograph

Hunting Group on Dock

Date: 1910
Description: Group of twelve men and one boy posing on a dock. A dog lays at the feet of the man in the center. Three of the men hold stringers of dead ducks. On the fa...
Postcard

George and Louise Koegel with Milton

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of George, Louise, and Milton, their son, standing in front of a fence. They are traveling with one suitcase and a full handbag. All three a...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 07 1974
Description: Paul Vanderbilt sitting in a painted metal chair in George Talbot's (Vanderbilt's successor) backyard on Jenifer Street. He is wearing a plaid jacket, trou...
Photograph

Bicycling Outing in Waucheta

Date: 09 20 1896
Description: Group of men, and a young boy, standing in the small front yard of a house at a bicycling outing. A woman stands in an open doorway at the top of the steps...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Features an illustration of a man gesturing across a large empty space (possibly water) towards a factory operating at night. The same man is looking at a...
Photograph

Albert and Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 07 06 1939
Description: Albert and Elsa Seipp Madlener pose for their portrait on the day of their son Otto's wedding to Virginia Wetmore at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. ...

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: