Wisco Histo

Tuhus and Ecklor families at Thanksgiving, La Farge, Wisconsin, 1909.

Carson Gulley: Madison, Wisconsin’s first celebrity chef

Born in rural Arkansas in 1897, Carson Gulley worked for 27 years as the head chef for the Housing Division at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He published two cookbooks, hosted cooking programs on local radio and TV, and fought against Madison's segregated housing laws.

Read more about Gulley in this excerpt from Madison Food: A History of Capital Cuisine by Nichole Fromm and JonMichael Rasmus. 

Wisconsin is now part of the Digital Public Library of America!

Woman’s Relief Corps float for 4th of July parade, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1907.

Scenes from 4th of July parade celebrating Whitefish Bay’s centennial, 1992.

From volume 29 in a series of 40 scrapbooks compiled by Mimi Bird of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.

Dancing at Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984. 

Emelia and Elizabeth Snyder, Richland Center, Wisconsin, ca. 1950s.

Emelia and Elizabeth Snyder of Richland County, Wisconsin at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915.

Ed Piller plays concertina at a backyard party, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1976.

Children sing at Holzhacker Lodge celebration, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1984.

William and Fanny Van Zile's new home, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1900-1905.

“William and Fanny Van Zile, their children, and a neighbor couple pose with justifiable pride in front of what appears to be their newly completed home on the northeast corner of Wildwood Avenue and Washington Street.”

The house remains standing in the same location today. Google Street View.

Baseball team, Crandon, Wisconsin, 1905-1910.

Customers sitting outside Grand View Cafe, Kewaskum, Wisconsin, 1940.

Mary and Agnes Sheldon at the Town of Milwaukee Town Hall, Shorewood, Wisconsin, April 1925.

Photo by Charles Sheldon.

Agnes Sheldon and her daughter Mary in front of a Milwaukee Transit double-decker bus, Shorewood, Wisconsin, May 1923.

Photo by Charles Sheldon.