Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 118

Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

Apple Stand at Deering Works Agricultural Exhibit

Date: 
Description: Two women staffing an apple stand for an agricultural exhibit at International Harvester's Deering Works. The stand is decorated in stars and stripes. The ...
Photograph

Fruit Display

Date: 11 09 1939
Description: Display of Blue Anchor California pears and grapes in Badger Fruit Market, 250 State Street.
Photograph

Liggitts Drug Store Lemonade and Orangeade Display on Soda Fountain

Date: 08 14 1934
Description: Ligget's Drug Store at 29 S. Pinckney Street, with a lemonade display on the soda fountain. The signs on the mirror read: "Lemonade healthful, refreshing,"...
Photograph

Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, interior showing produce and bakery, alternate view.
Photograph

Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, showing fruit, vegetable, and bakery displays with a clerk behind the counter.
Photograph

Consumers Fruit Market

Date: 01 07 1931
Description: Interior view of Consumers Fruit Market, 346 State Street, corner of State and Gorham Streets.
Photograph

International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
Photograph

W.A. Oppel Grocery

Date: 1896
Description: Grocers standing in front of the W.A. Oppel Grocery located at 116 East Main Street. The five men are standing on the sidewalk among bine and crates displa...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Musk Melons

Date: 1911
Description: A man and a boy use dollies to haul giant musk melons near a train. In red text on the upper center portion is the inscription, "How we do things at Bald K...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Specimen of California Apples

Date: 1910
Description: Photomontage of two giant yellow apples resting on a flatbed train car. A group of apple trees stand behind the train. Red text in the upper left corner re...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Watermelons Grow Big

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a horse-drawn cart that is hauling giant watermelons broken down in the middle of a road. The driver of the cart inspects the broken wheel ...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (without Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Melon Party." Four girls wearing bows and dresses are holding an object...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Melon Party (with Melons)

Date: 1911
Description: Photomontage of children with giant watermelons. Four girls wearing dresses and bows hold a giant slice of melon across them as they all bite into it. Two ...
Photograph

International Model F Market Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Two men stand near Riegel's Traveling Market truck, an International Model F (or 31) modified to hold baskets of bananas, pineapples, corn, lettuce, aspara...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Grapes

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a stack of giant grapes resting on a flatbed cart. The side of the cart bears the inscription, "Wells Fargo Company Express." Red text at...
Photograph

Indian Rocks Fruit Store

Date: 1935
Description: H.D. Ulmer stands behind the counter of his Indian Rocks brand fruit basket gift shop. The original caption reads: "H.D. Ulmer, owner of 75-acre farm near ...
Photograph

Picnic Behind Highlander

Date: 1935
Description: A student at Highlander having a picnic behind the school.
Drawing

Interior of a Cider Mill

Date: 1879
Description: Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Wet and Dry Compartment Milk Cooler

Date: 10 20 1936
Description: A woman wearing a striped smock puts apples from a tin into a 4-can combination wet and dry compartment milk cooler. Also seen in the cooler are items suc...

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: