Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 41

Photograph

Smelt Wrestling

Date: 04 1939
Description: Two men smelt wrestling at the Smelt Carnival in Marinette.
Photograph

Farm Family with Copious Produce

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: Matthew H. Stephenson, his wife Julia Hebert Stephenson, and their son William Clinton pose with vegetables from the Menomonee River Boom Company garden ne...
Photograph

Peshtigo Smoke Stack Ruins

Date: 1871
Description: Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left.
Photograph

Peshtigo Log Jam

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area.
Photograph

Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
Photograph

Aviation-Minded Governor

Date: 1928
Description: Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill...
Photograph

Beer Drinkers

Date: 
Description: A group of men near the Koss railroad depot, the majority of whom are seated on the ground. One of the men is sitting on a piano stool. To the right of the...
Photograph

Wisconsin & Michigan Locomotive at Marinette

Date: 05 24 1936
Description: A Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad pulling into the station at Marinette. The conductor on the step has been identified as Ray Campbell.
Photograph

Peshtigo Train Depot

Date: 1920
Description: View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s...
Photograph

Land Economic Inventory Mapping Crew

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction.
Photograph

Clearing the Land

Date: 1905
Description: Man and woman using a double-handled saw to clear trees from their land.
Photograph

Marinette County Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ...
Photograph

Marinette County Dairy Herd

Date: 
Description: Two men with cows in the barnyard of farm.
Photograph

Corn Picking

Date: 
Description: Woman picking corn on a farm.
Photograph

Crowd Promoting Land Clearing

Date: 1923
Description: A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program.
Photograph

Koss Depot

Date: 
Description: Two women and two young boys pose in front of the Koss Depot, which also serves as a post office and telegraph office.
Photograph

Train No. 5, Engine No. 8

Date: 
Description: Several men are posing with train No. 5, engine No. 8.
Postcard

Scene in Residence Section

Date: 07 21 1909
Description: Photographic postcard view across dirt road toward two men and a child sitting on the sidewalk in front of a house in residential area. Caption reads: "Sce...
Photograph

Group Posed on Lath Bundles

Date: 
Description: A group of people, consisting of men, women and children, posed on a pile of wooden lath bundles. One man is standing.
Photograph

Flint Corn

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: A man is driving a McCormick harvester with a team of horses, cutting and binding a crop of flint ("Indian") corn, on the farm of S.D.D. Newton, five miles...

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: