Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 38

Photograph

Schooner under Sail

Date: 
Description: Print depicting a ship in the harbor. The image has seagulls composited into the sky and white background. Caption reads: "Schooner Under Sail" and "The Al...
Photograph

Salt Ship at Wharf

Date: 
Description: View of schooner and other boats at the wharf. The town can be seen in the distance. Text on photograph reads: "Salt Ship At Wharf." and "The Albertype Co....
Photograph

Lugger (Picayune) Landing

Date: 
Description: Lugger (Picayune) Landing with sailboats and fishing boats. Boats and ships are in the background. Caption reads: "Lugger [Picayue] Landing."
Photograph

New Orleans Composite

Date: 
Description: Composite of views showing the French market, sugar refinery and sugar sheds, fishing boats, steamer unloading bananas, and picking and cutting sugar cane ...
Photograph

Historical Marker for Champlain

Date: 
Description: View across shrubs toward a stone historical marker dedicated to Champlain, a Canadian explorer. The marker overlooks the ocean, and a sailboat is visible ...
Photograph

Cottages

Date: 1920
Description: View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r...
Photograph

Small Wooden Dwelling

Date: 1920
Description: A small wooden dwelling with nearby lobster pots overlooking boats moored and sailing in the bay.
Photograph

Christmas Cove

Date: 1930
Description: A view of the town from across the lake.
Photograph

Harbor and Town

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a harbor and town.
Photograph

Pigeon Bay Harbor

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Pigeon Cove Harbor with fishing boats, Sandy Bay and Rockport coastline beyond.
Photograph

Wharf

Date: 
Description: A view of a wharf with fishing boats.
Photograph

Boy Watching the Sea

Date: 
Description: A view of a boy watching the sea from a pier. Two sailboats are in the water,
Photograph

Long Pier

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a long, curving pier on the bay with large sailboats with sails out on the left side, and smaller boats on the right.
Photograph

Shipwrecked Sailboat

Date: 1930
Description: The bow of a large shipwrecked boat, the E.M. Sawyer, tipped up on a rocky shore.
Photograph

Stranded Ship "Galena"

Date: 
Description: A bark, the "Galena," stranded on Clatsop Beach, with three men and two women on the beach in the foreground.
Photograph

Wreck of the ship "Peter Iredale"

Date: 
Description: A view of the wrecked ship beached in shallow water. The ship ran ashore in 1906. Caption reads: "Wreck of Ship 'Peter Iredale' Clatsop Beach, Ore."
Photograph

Stranded Ship "Galena"

Date: 
Description: Elevated view across beach toward the ship beached in shallow water. There is a crowd of people on the beach in the foreground. Caption reads: "Ship 'Galen...
Photograph

Spring Point Lighthouse

Date: 
Description: View across water toward the Spring Point Lighthouse, established in 1897 and automated in 1934. There is a small boat near the base of the lighthouse, and...
Photograph

'Mayflower" Painting

Date: 
Description: "The 'Mayflower' in Plymouth Harbor, Mass." A copy of the painting by William F. Halsall from the collection of the Plymouth, Massachusetts colony. Paintin...
Photograph

"Clermont" Steamboat Drawing

Date: 
Description: A copy of Robert Fulton's steamboat "Clermont" drawing. Illustration depicts a large steamboat on a river. Many people are on board. The boat features a sm...

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: