Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FORMAT_DIMENSIONS of unknown
Filter: Subject of boats and boating
| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, docked at the American Steel Barge Company. |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge). |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge. |
| Date: | 1956 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1950 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from shoreline of the steamboat "Idora," owned by Charles Russell, docked at the Mission 'stub dock' on Madeline Island. A group of people are on boar... |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph view of several groups of men on rafts loaded with felled trees. |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a lumber raft steering the raft through the rapids in the Wisconsin Dells. Caption at bottom: The Camera's Story of Raftman's Life ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass. |
| Date: | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph view of Archie Young, pilot and logging camp foreman for the Arpin Lumber company holding the rudder. A second man, Zack Dugas, a cousin is in ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men posing sitting and standing on a raft in front of a rock wall. |
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:
