Wisconsin 101

Migrant Worker's Cabin

OBJECT HISTORY: Migrant Worker’s Cabin

This cabin, once occupied by a family of migrant workers employed by the Bond Pickle Company, is located at the property of Thomas and Jamie Sobush of Pensaukee, Wisconsin. The cabin was originally one of many other small cabins, clustered together at the Bond Village Migrant Camp on Van Hecke Avenue in Oconto, Wisconsin. The…

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September 10, 2020

Langlade County / Region 2 - North East / CCC Pillow Sham / Home Furnishings / Politics, Society & Government / Art, Sport & Entertainment / Object Histories / 1920-1940

OBJECT HISTORY: CCC Pillow Sham

Created in 1933, this commemorative pillow sham was just one of a number of textiles created by second-generation Hungarian immigrant Rose Mary Drab to honor her brother Edward’s service in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Rose Mary appliquéd the black cotton sateen sham with a small cotton tent, a blue eagle and two small stars, and hills, pine…

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September 9, 2020

Women in the American Art Pottery Movement

Pauline Pottery Covered Jar / Home Furnishings / Manufacturing & Trade / 1860-1880 / Art, Sport & Entertainment / 1880-1900 / Ethnicity & Identity / Curators' Favorites

Women in the American Art Pottery Movement

Women played a central role in the American Art Pottery movement, both as leaders like Pauline Jacobus and as workers like Lulu Deveraux Dixon.

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April 20, 2020

The Pauline Pottery

Region 7 - South Center / Dane County / Edgerton / Pauline Pottery Covered Jar / Related Stories / Home Furnishings / Manufacturing & Trade / Art, Sport & Entertainment / 1880-1900 / 1900-1920 / Curators' Favorites

The Pauline Pottery

Chicago-born artist and entrepreneur Pauline Jacobus was the central figure of Edgerton, Wisconsin's art pottery movement. In 1888, Jacobus and her husband Oscar relocated the Pauline Pottery from Chicago to Edgerton to take advantage of the area's quality clay.

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April 20, 2020

Waukesha County / Region 8 - South East / Home Furnishings / 1880-1900 / Object Histories / Education

OBJECT HISTORY: Slate

Before chromebooks, iPads, and even lined paper, students still had to complete their assignments. In the past, students did most their schoolwork on a slate. A slate is a small, rectangular blackboard made from slate stone. They had two sides and the edges were wrapped in leather or wood to protect students’ hands. In the…

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February 10, 2020

Dunn County / Region 1 - North West / Menomonie / Wilson Place Door / Home Furnishings / Art, Sport & Entertainment / 1880-1900 / 1900-1920 / Object Histories

OBJECT HISTORY: Wilson Place Door

The Wilson Place Mansion front door was crafted at the turn of the twentieth century, likely by a well-known Arts and Crafts Movement blacksmith named Thomas F. Googerty. Wilson Place Mansion was the home of James Huff Stout, a lumber baron, longtime state senator, and philanthropist. Area tradition has it that the door was fashioned to honor Stout,…

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September 10, 2019