Visit our other Wisconsin Historical Society websites!
Date: | 1879 |
---|---|
Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
Date: | 1875 |
---|---|
Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
Date: | 1896 |
---|---|
Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 1876 |
---|---|
Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom... |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Charles McCarthy seated at a desk with a telephone in front of him. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
Date: | 1883 |
---|---|
Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 1949 |
---|---|
Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
Date: | 1895 |
---|---|
Description: | Interior view of the Hausmann Brewery Bar with spittoons on the floor. A sign behind the bar reads: "No intoxicating drinks sold to minors." The patrons an... |
Date: | 1950 |
---|---|
Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
Date: | 1885 |
---|---|
Description: | Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
Date: | |
---|---|
Description: | Edmund Eisenscher (1909-1995), posing with his dog. |
Date: | 1900 |
---|---|
Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1880 |
---|---|
Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
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: