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Photograph

Creative Playthings

Date: 11 19 1965
Description: In a photograph advertising Creative Playthings, a young boy is sitting on a rocking horse, with climbing apparatus in the background. A catalog shop for C...
Book or Pamphlet

Olds' Seeds Cover Design

Date: 1945
Description: A cover design of the Olds' Seeds catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The caption reads: "Victory Gardener by ???," and features a photograph of a woman we...
Photograph

Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at...
Photograph

Wisconsin Historical Society Library Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library with a view of the card catalogs.
Property Record

1909 COUNTY HIGHWAY V

Community: Bristol
County: Dane
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 123060
Photograph

Signe and Peder Sletteland

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Studying an art catalog at the University of Wisconsin Centennial Art Exhibit at the Memorial Union, are Mrs. Alan Jones, Fort Atkinson, and Thomas R. Heft...
Property Record

2521 DAHLE ST

Community: Madison
County: Dane
Historic Name: Maurice Diedrich
Reference Number: 95457
Drawing

Costume for Caprice Venetienne

Date: 
Description: Design by Dazians for "Caprice Venetienne." The design is reproduced from a catalog of designs received by the Kehl School of Dance in Madison, Wisconsin.
Book or Pamphlet

Parlors at Hillside Home School

Date: 
Description: The parlors at Hillside Home School, featuring a fireplace, bookshelves, curtained doorways, and rocking chairs.
Property Record

2841 Regent St

Community: Madison
County: Dane
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 221678
Historical Essay

Nancy Hanks Doll: An Historic American Girl

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
German bisque doll with her trunk of clothes and accessories, c. 1908. (Museum object #1966.408.1)
Drawing

Sheldon Office and Warehouse

Date: 1889
Description: Slightly elevated view of the S.L Sheldon Company Warehouse and Office. Outside of the building, there is a bustling street filled with pedestrians and hor...
Property Record

5855 SCHUMANN DR

Community: Fitchburg
County: Dane
Historic Name: Ronald Behling House
Reference Number: 239489
Property Record

5873 SCHUMANN DR

Community: Fitchburg
County: Dane
Historic Name: Thomas and Diane Schmidt House
Reference Number: 239494
Photograph

Madison Gladiolus Society Annual Show

Date: 08 07 1949
Description: Theodore Woods and Mrs. T.R. (Madeline) Hefty admiring a vase of "Madeline Hefty" gladioli at the Madison gladiolus society's eighth annual show. Mr. Woods...
Photograph

High School Boys Conducting Liberty Loan Drive

Date: 04 1918
Description: Several young men stand around a kiosk decorated with American flags. One is dressed as Uncle Sam. Behind, them, young men and women are standing. A War Sa...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type...
Photograph

Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ...
Property Record

309 S MAIN ST

Community: Deerfield
County: Dane
Historic Name: Martin Roumm House
Reference Number: 5371

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