Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FORMAT_DIMENSIONS of 3 x 2 inches
Filter: Subject of transportation
| Date: | 1923 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
| Date: | 07 18 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi... |
| Date: | 07 18 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Rescue of airplane which has crashed into Lake Mendota near the north shore. View of the airplane from the water toward the shore and Camp Wakanda. Tom La... |
| Date: | 1931 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national... |
| Date: | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central Amer... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of the overflow crowd standing outside the Wisconsin State Capitol during the funerals for University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and ... |
| Date: | 09 18 1940 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and his son Glenn, Jr. are carried up the steps of the Monona Avenue entrance to the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1971 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | During the 1930s the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee PWOC) began a national organizing campaign among packinghouse workers. This undated p... |
| Date: | 1872 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a wagon train passing through the town. There are numerous covered wagons and horses, and storefronts on both sides of the road. Caption r... |
| Date: | 1942 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Sigurd Olson standing in a Border Lakes Outfitting Company canoe. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of men and young boys with canoes pulled up on rocks near a rapids during an unidentified wilderness canoe trip led by Sigurd Olson. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A snapshot of postwar refugees in Berlin traveling by railroad boxcar. |
| Date: | 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Refugees traveling by boxcar. Although the location is unidentified it was probably taken by Sigurd Olson in or near Berlin either late in 1945 or early i... |
| Date: | 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue towards Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A colt stands next to a horse harnessed to a carriage driven by Forest Middleton. A large barn or outbuilding is behind him. |
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:
