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Photograph

Woman in Man's Suit

Date: 03 17 1963
Description: A woman modeling a men's suit, while holding an umbrella and wearing a top hat. She is reflected by a mirror in the background.
Photograph

Cut Fence

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Pewaukee

Date: 10 1914
Description: Page 2 of a Sanborn-Perris map of Pewaukee.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Pewaukee

Date: 07 1924
Description: Page 3 of Sanborn-Perris map of Pewaukee.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Pewaukee

Date: 11 1899
Description: Page 1 of Sanborn-Perris map of Pewaukee.
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Pewaukee

Date: 10 1894
Description: Page 1 of Sanborn-Perris map of Pewaukee.
Photograph

View Down Road

Date: 1915
Description: View looking down a road. Buildings are along the left, with trees and a sidewalk. A body of water is on the right.
Drawing

Stewart House

Date: 1900
Description: A sketch of the Stewart (I.N. Stewart?) home.
Photograph

Stewart House

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph of the Stewart home. The name I.N. Stewart is stamped on the back, and the home is presumably of the family of the donor of the photograph, Mar...
Photograph

Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: A view of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lak...
Photograph

Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: View of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lake....
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior of Octagon House. The caption reads: "The Pewaukee octagon house is the one for Poe. Legend says the man who built it killed his wife. Truth expla...
Photograph

Octagon House

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Octagon House from the southwest.
Drawing

Graber Lakehouse Bedroom Perspective Drawing

Date: 1952
Description: Perspective drawing of a bedroom in the Graber Lakehouse designed by John Randal McDonald.
Drawing

Silver Residence Interior Perspective

Date: 1951
Description: Interior perspective drawing of the living room of Robert and Rhoda Silver designed by John Randal McDonald.
Drawing

Graber House Interior Perspective

Date: 1953
Description: Interior perspective drawing of the living room of the Fred Graber house designed and drawn by architect John Randal McDonald.
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Farms of I.N. Stewart and Robt. A. Stewart

Date: 1882
Description: This manuscript map from 1882 shows land use and land for sale in a portion of the Town of Pewaukee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Woods, marshland, springs,...
Photograph

Senta III

Date: 07 1959
Description: View across water of the Senta III, owned by Ernst Schmidt of Black Point Estate, competes in the Class A Regatta at Pewaukee Lake. The skipper is B...
Photograph

Famall M Tractor and No. 2 Ensilage Harvester

Date: 1948
Description: View across section of harvested field towards a man using a Farmall M tractor to pull a No. 2 ensilage harvester and McCormick-Deering wagon to cut corn o...
Photograph

Train Wreck

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Milwaukee Road locomotive 5508 resting on its side after a derailment. The engine struck the rail, seen in center foreground, which had been driven upright...

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