Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-13 of 13

Photograph

Fishing Dock

Date: 1938
Description: View from water of fishing dock and structure alongside; log buildings in background on shore. Possibly on shoreline of one of the Apostle Islands or on Ch...
Drawing

Fur Trading Post

Date: 1833
Description: Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833.
Photograph

Christian Turck House

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant.
Photograph

Doty Loggery

Date: 1936
Description: Home of James Duane Doty on Doty's Island, "the loggery." Northeast elevation.
Photograph

Log Cabin in Heg Memorial Park

Date: 1937
Description: A log cabin in Heg Memorial Park, built in 1837.
Photograph

Vieau Historic Site Marker with Log Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane...
Photograph

Portrait in Wood

Date: 
Description: Clam Lake artist Jerry Holter carving a wooden portrait of John A. Lavine, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher.
Photograph

House at St. John's

Date: 1907
Description: View of a house and yard. There is laundry hanging out to dry and, in the foreground, a cooking pot over a fire.
Photograph

Preparing a Fish

Date: 1914
Description: The Gang is watching as McGrew is scaling and gutting a large fish on a log outdoors. Doc Copeland is standing on the left wearing a light-colored hat. Mac...
Photograph

Mail Camp 8

Date: 1909
Description: A view down a rustic road of "Mail Camp 8" near Marenisco, Michigan, including a number of log cabins.
Photograph

At the Ranch

Date: 1909
Description: View down dirt road leading to the left, with a log cabin to the right among trees. There is a farm implement near the road. Caption reads: "At the Ranch."...
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: A logging camp at the Phoenix Manufacturing Company.
Photograph

Main Lodge

Date: 1956
Description: Front doorway to the main lodge which is built of horizontal chinked-logs with stone entrance steps; two stone chimneys on a cedar shake roof. Striped awni...

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: