Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-13 of 13

Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
Photograph

Impoverished African American Children

Date: 02 25 1915
Description: Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ...
Photograph

Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
Description: Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house.
Photograph

Montgomery State Normal School

Date: 03 03 1915
Description: A large group of African American children stand with a sign reading: "Diversification of Livestock in Alabama" in front of the Montgomery State Normal Sch...
Photograph

Group at Alabama Barbecue Pit

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children gathered around an outdoor barbecue pit as meat roasts. The barbecue took place at Louis Frank Sessions' farm during a ...
Photograph

Gillespie Family at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: Group portrait of Josh Gillespie sitting with his wife and children on the steps of a farmhouse. Gillespie was foreman at International Harvester's Montgom...
Photograph

Students Standing Outside Schoolhouse

Date: 1915
Description: Class of students standing outside a rural school known as the Blackjack School.
Photograph

Students and Teacher(?) Outside School

Date: 1915
Description: Class of students and teacher(?) standing outside a rural school known as the Blackjack School.
Photograph

Alabama Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and E.S. Goetsch visiting a home in Shelby County, Alabama. The family, two women, two children, and a baby, are posing in front of the h...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of the Paul C. Goetsch Family

Date: 05 1902
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Paul C. Goetsch, his wife, and two children, Dorothy and Russel. They are sitting on the lawn in a patch of clover.
Photograph

Alabama Road Work

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait of four men and two boys standing with horses, oxen and mules hitched up to drag scrapers, to reconstruct a dirt road. A small building, pow...
Photograph

Alabama Road Construction

Date: 05 1902
Description: Group portrait, with Ernst Goetsch standing on a dirt road next to a team of oxen hitched up to a drag scraper on the left, and a team of oxen on the right...
Photograph

Paul C. Goetsch Home

Date: 05 1902
Description: Paul C. Goetsch and family posing in front of their home. Mrs. Paul C. Goetsch and Russel Goetsch are sitting on the steps of the front porch. Paul is hold...

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: