Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 23

Drawing

Riverbank on Mississippi River

Date: 
Description: People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu...
Drawing

Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels

Date: 
Description: Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels".
Drawing

Hamburg Landing

Date: 
Description: Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge.
Drawing

Magazine at Farmington

Date: 
Description: A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ...
Drawing

Scene on the Raging Tennessee River

Date: 
Description: "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is...
Drawing

Sailing up the Tennessee River

Date: 
Description: A sketch of a steamboat coming down the Tennessee River. Both shorelines are visible and there is another boat in the far distance.
Drawing

The Skirmish near Farmington

Date: 1862
Description: "Battle ground in foreground where occurred the skirmish near Farmington near Corinth." Farmington church near Corinth, Mississippi. Preliminary sketch sho...
Drawing

Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington

Date: 
Description: "Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington". A picket (a detachment of one or more troops) shown in a woodland setting. There is a log building with a ca...
Drawing

Exterior of Fort Donelson

Date: 
Description: Exterior of Fort Donelson with landscape including sparse buildings and trees.
Drawing

Boats/Rebel Gunboat

Date: 
Description: Rough sketch of a "Rebel Gunboat" and trees in the background.
Drawing

Boats

Date: 
Description: Various small rough sketches of several boats and a vague image with a tent and trees.
Drawing

Landscape

Date: 
Description: A vague image of a landscape with trees.
Drawing

Looking into Corinth from Farmington

Date: 
Description: A preliminary sketch of a landscape with partially drawn cannons in the foreground and tents in the background.
Drawing

Hospital Sketch

Date: 
Description: "Hospital and (indecipherable) during the last days battle at Fort Donelson on the Tennessee." Building with people and several trees.
Drawing

Ships on a River

Date: 
Description: Preliminary sketch of a distant ship on the river near an outcropping of land.
Photograph

Rock Quarry on Blackhawk Bluff

Date: 06 13 1913
Description: Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam.
Photograph

Miscauno Island Depot

Date: 
Description: View down railroad tracks which pass the Miscauno Island depot. A railroad signal is on the left, and the platform for the depot is on the right.
Photograph

Man and Boy Driving on a Rural Road

Date: 1914
Description: Man and boy, possibly father and son, drive an International Model M truck on rough dirt road near a fence.
Photograph

Covington and Fiskburg Bus

Date: 1914
Description: A man stands on a lawn by the front wheel of an International bus marked "Covington and Fiskburg." In the background is a fence and beyond that is a covere...
Photograph

Cabins at Bungalow Village — Highway 12

Date: 
Description: Row of small, hexagonal cabins at Bungalow Village.

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: