Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 27

Photograph

Atlas Mill

Date: 1922
Description: View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro...
Photograph

Building at Walnut Grove(?)

Date: 1900
Description: Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia.
Photograph

Pine Tree Stock Farm Equipment

Date: 1938
Description: Equipment owned by the Pine Tree Stock Farm is displayed outside a barn. The original caption describes the equipment shown as a "D-30 M.T. [motor truck], ...
Photograph

Lumber Mill

Date: 1906
Description: View from rocky shoreline of a lumber mill on the banks of the Chippewa River. Smoke is coming out from a smokestack.
Photograph

Taliesin I Courtyard Garden and Statue

Date: 
Description: Taliesin I courtyard garden looking toward the hill garden. The statue, "Flower in a Crannied Wall," rest on top of a stone wall. The image was made from t...
Photograph

Taliesin I Loggia Terrace Wall

Date: 1912
Description: Taliesin I north elevation of the loggia terrace. The living room chimney and windows are in the background. The terrace walls are made of rubble masonry.
Photograph

Taliesin I Entrance

Date: 1912
Description: Entrance road to Taliesin I on the south east side of the building.
Photograph

Big Lumber Mill Across the River

Date: 
Description: The Big Lumber Mill seen from across the Chippewa River under cloudy skies, with smoke coming out of several smokestacks
Photograph

Leinenkugel Brewery

Date: 
Description: An engraving of an elevated view of the Leinenkugel Brewery complex with the buildings identified. A streetcar is passing by and two horses pulling wagons ...
Photograph

Factory and Dam

Date: 
Description: Elevated view across dirt road of a paper mill on the shore of the Chippewa River next to a concrete dam. The mill has a tall smokestack. On the far shorel...
Photograph

City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek

Date: 
Description: Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b...
Photograph

McKenna Mill

Date: 
Description: Lumberyard full of logs and a sawmill in the distance, probably McKenna in eastern Jackson County.
Photograph

Group in front of Sawmill

Date: 
Description: View down hill of a large group of men, some displaying horses, in front of a sawmill and its power plant. One of the men is holding a dog, and two of the ...
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: View down hill of York Iron Works. On the left are charcoal kilns, and in the far background is the town.
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry.
Photograph

Man in Boat by York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: View down hill of man posed sitting in a boat near the bank of a river taken from an iron mound of the York Iron Works. There is a view of the blast furnac...
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace and pig iron stock piles. The boardinghouse is visible on the hill in the far background.
Photograph

Halcyon Brick Works

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from opposite shoreline of Halcyon Brick Works on the shore of a river. Trees, fields and hills are in the far background.
Photograph

York Iron Mine

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the York Iron Mine. Railroad tracks are in the foreground.
Photograph

Villa Louis

Date: 
Description: View across field towards Villa Louis, with a white fence in the middle ground and a race track in the foreground.

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:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org