Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Women
Filter: County of Milwaukee
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1840 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Exterior of Walter Allen School, with a woman in a carriage parked in front. The Walter Allen School was an elementary school located at 1657 South Third S... |
| Date: | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. An electric sign for the Alhambra Theatre is in the center. Pedestrians are crossing the road and are on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women of various ages are surrounded by babies and young children, as well as chairs and cribs. Each woman is holding a baby. Cribs are hanging on chains f... |
| Date: | 1897 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men escorting a fashionably dressed woman with a feathered boa obscuring part of her face. People are standing in the background near a train next to t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | East Wisconsin Avenue showing men and women on the sidewalks and the Hotel Pfister in the background. |
| Date: | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Studio portrait of Lenore Harrison Cawker holding a parrot on her hand. |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women and children visit soldiers at Camp Harvey. A long building with other people on a long porch is in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women congregate near "The Victorious Charge," a monument to Soldiers who fought in the Civil War located in Milwaukee's Court of Honor on the median betwe... |
| Date: | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group portrait of the members of the 11th Wisconsin Volunteers, and some family members, posed on the steps of what appears to be the old Milwaukee County ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
| Date: | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Julia, the cook, on the rolling machine pulled by a team of horses wearing fly-nets. She is wearing a full-length dress and holding a whip in her right han... |
| Date: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cabinet card of Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947), wife of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, wearing a printed silk dress an... |
| Date: | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Head and shoulders carte-de-visite of Ethelinda Marie Thorsen (1856-1947), age 16, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter of John Thorsen (b. 1820), a lumberman... |
| Date: | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cabinet card of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. John, a successf... |
| Date: | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cabinet card portrait of Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947), wife of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. She is wearing a seal ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Cabinet card studio portrait of John (1836-1904) and Ethelinda (1856-1947) Johnston sitting on a decorative wall in front of a painted backdrop of trees. ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ethelinda Marie (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) in her wedding gown. She was married in Milwau... |
| Date: | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Several adults, two children and a dog enjoying a pond at Bracken Brae, the country home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker. Hilda... |
| Date: | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Studio wedding portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) and Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) in their wedding outfits. Ku... |
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: