Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-12 of 12

Photograph

House at St. John's

Date: 1907
Description: View of a house and yard. There is laundry hanging out to dry and, in the foreground, a cooking pot over a fire.
Photograph

Mackey Wells

Date: 1914
Description: Mackey weighing a large fish near a log cabin. The lake is partially visible in the background on the right.
Photograph

Preparing a Fish

Date: 1914
Description: The Gang is watching as McGrew is scaling and gutting a large fish on a log outdoors. Doc Copeland is standing on the left wearing a light-colored hat. Mac...
Photograph

Indian Artifacts

Date: 1911
Description: Display of mostly wooden Indian artifacts, which were seen near Quetico Lake.
Photograph

Splitting Wood

Date: 08 1911
Description: The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake.
Photograph

Medicine Man Cache

Date: 1911
Description: A forgotten Indian cache in poor condition assembled by a Medicine Man. The contents include a green skull cap with a fur band, a tool for scraping hair fr...
Photograph

Making Pie

Date: 1909
Description: The camp cook, Joe Paris, rolling out pie crust on a wooden box at a camp.
Photograph

Cooking at the Camp

Date: 1909
Description: One of the boys watching as one of the men is cooking over the fire in "the kitchen" at their camp.
Photograph

Doc Copeland

Date: 1914
Description: Doc Copeland is sitting in a chair mending a fishing net.
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 
Description: Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem...
Photograph

Wagon at Construction Site

Date: 
Description: A wagon is being raised or lowered at a construction site. The wagon has chains looped around the axle of each wheel as a man below signals directions. He ...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 
Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma...

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: