Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 28

Photograph

Public Works Department

Date: 12 1954
Description: Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets.
Photograph

Marathon County Court House

Date: 1955
Description: View across street towards the Marathon County Court House.
Photograph

City Hall

Date: 1950
Description: View across intersection of City Hall on a street corner.
Photograph

Regent Street and West Washington Avenue Intersection

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from the intersection of Regent Street and West Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Sixth Street Viaduct

Date: 1950
Description: View from the top of a warehouse at the south end of 6th Street. There is a traffic jam on both sides of the viaduct. On the left, one man is walking on th...
Photograph

Madison General Hospital

Date: 1956
Description: View of hospital from Park Street. A sign for the ambulance entrance under the street sign points to the right.
Photograph

E.B. Fred Hall

Date: 1954
Description: View across road of E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building is set behin...
Photograph

Flooding at Nakoma Bus Stop

Date: 03 13 1950
Description: A woman is standing at a bus stop at the end of Monroe Street, the entrance to Nakoma, where puddles from melting snow cause water from passing traffic to ...
Photograph

Madison Street Sign Shop

Date: 02 15 1951
Description: Milton Kneebone, a member of the city street-marking crew, spray-paints street name signs.
Photograph

Postwar Berlin

Date: 1951
Description: A street scene in Berlin that shows the damage caused by wartime bombing. A banner or billboard on the damaged building on the right is advertising a film ...
Photograph

Middleton Street View

Date: 05 1958
Description: View down sidewalk of the business district.
Photograph

AAA School Safety Program

Date: 08 31 1953
Description: Stuart B. Wright, AAA general Manager, presents school safety signs to Mayor George Forster, Supt. of Schools Philip H. Falk, and Police Chief Bruce Weathe...
Photograph

Striking Workers Confront Police near McCormick Works

Date: 07 31 1952
Description: View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest...
Photograph

Street Sign

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Street sign for intersection of Larkin Street and Plymouth Circle, shown before there were streets to go with the sign. Location near Hoyt Park pavilion.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1956
Description: "Main Street taken with a telephoto lens."
Photograph

Pharo Heating Company

Date: 08 02 1954
Description: Exterior view of the Pharo Heating Company building, 1302 Regent Street (corner of Orchard and Regent Streets).
Photograph

Spring Valley Road

Date: 07 05 1959
Description: "Shirley Widmer reminisces on Spring Valley Road."
Photograph

Bridge on Highway 175

Date: 1954
Description: "Telephoto picture of the old bridge. Note Highway is 175."
Photograph

First Lutheran Church

Date: 08 02 1956
Description: Exterior view of the First Lutheran Church at the corner of Old Sauk Road and Pleasant View Road in Middleton, Wisconsin. It was the site of the Middleton ...
Photograph

Eastmorland Bike Parade

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Bicycles are decorated as part of the Eastmorland bike parade. The bikes belong to and were decorated by, from left to right: Jimmy Walsh, Mindy Peck, Lynn...

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: