Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 81-100 of 622

Photograph

Trail Along West Bluff at Copper Falls

Date: 08 1936
Description: Trail through Copper Falls State Park along the west bluff, through virgin hemlock timber.
Photograph

Logging Train

Date: 1910
Description: Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company locomotive Number 1, loaded with logs and flanked by large piles of logs.
Photograph

The "Hilton"

Date: 1910
Description: The "Hilton," a boat owned by the John Schroeder Lumber Company; captained by Harry Brower.
Map or Atlas

Ashland, Lake Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye map of Ashland, viewed from Lake Superior, with insets of Prentice Park and Fishery. Population 16,000. Increase in Ten Years, 11,000.
Photograph

Downtown Ashland

Date: 1891
Description: Elevated view looking west from the Knight Block. The Chequamegon Hotel and harbor are in the background.
Photograph

Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1888
Description: View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin...
Photograph

Log Booms on Chequamegon Bay

Date: 1945
Description: Elevated view of logs stored in a logging boom on Chequamegon Bay.
Drawing

Design for Seats

Date: 12 11 1936
Description: Blueprint design for seats for Copper Falls State Park.
Drawing

Trail Side Shelter

Date: 05 21 1936
Description: Blueprint design for a trail side shelter at Copper Falls State Park.
Drawing

Design for Suspension Footbridge

Date: 01 09 1940
Description: Blueprint design for a suspension footbridge for Copper Falls State Park.
Drawing

Copper Falls Master Plan

Date: 
Description: Blueprint design of the master plan for Copper Falls State Park.
Photograph

Steamboat "John C. Mann"

Date: 
Description: The steamboat "John C. Mann" on drydock.
Photograph

Steamboat "Barker"

Date: 1911
Description: The steamboat "Barker" with numerous passengers posing on deck. The boat was owned by Captain Frank Brower of Ashland, and his son Captain Henry F. Brower ...
Photograph

Steamboat "Fashion"

Date: 
Description: Steamboat "Fashion" on the water.
Photograph

Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Ashland

Date: 1885
Description: Mining and lumbering provided the impetus for the development of northern Wisconsin and Ashland was ideally situated to become a leading city of the "new W...
Map or Atlas

View of Ashland and the Apostle Islands

Date: 02 26 1887
Description: Bird's-eye map of Ashland, and the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Caption reads: "Ashland and the Apostle Islands."
Photograph

Devils Island

Date: 
Description: Devils Island on Lake Superior, outermost of the Apostle Islands group. There appears to be the edge of a boat in the foreground.
Photograph

Ashland Ore Dock

Date: 1885
Description: Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background.
Print

Ashland, Wis.-- Looking West from Knight Block

Date: 
Description: Looking West from Knight Block, with shipping piers and sailing ships on right side, railroad on left, trees in background. Horse-drawn carriages on street...

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: