Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Search: Webb
Search: Caroline
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Glimpses of African American Life in the Midwest, 1865-1934 |
|---|
| Read about three generations of a Midwestern African American family. |
| Date: | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype of a child sitting on a bench wearing a white dress and shoes. |
| Date: | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two young girls in white dresses trimmed with lace posing for a studio portrait on a bench covered with a kilim rug. |
| Date: | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype waist-up oval portrait of an African American man wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and partially buttoned vest. |
| Date: | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype oval waist-up portrait of an African American woman in a striped shirtwaist with white collar and waistband, wearing earrings and a cameo... |
| Date: | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug a... |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
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:
