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Photograph

Hickory Tree

Date: 
Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
Painting

Peshtigo Fire

Date: 
Description: Families huddled in a field in the Sugar Bushes, attempting to escape the Peshtigo Fire.
Photograph

Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Photograph

La Pointe from Big Bay Road

Date: 1910
Description: View of La Pointe taken from Big Bay Road on Madeline Island.
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men are posing on a Nichols & Shepard combine thresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Combine Thresher and Tractor

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Two men operating a Nichols & Shephard combine tresher and Hart Parr tractor.
Photograph

Truck Garden

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Six men with hoes in a truck garden at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Hwy 113.
Poster

IHC Gasoline Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester stationary, portable and traction engines. Features color illustrations of engines and tractors in a number ...
Photograph

Richard Quinney and Grain Binder

Date: 1937
Description: Young Richard Quinney atop the family's new horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Painting

Dairy Farm

Date: 1948
Description: A painting of a dairy farm, which was part of the State Fair Centennial mural.
Map or Atlas

Flouring Mill of John Ochsner

Date: 1877
Description: A page from an illustrated historical atlas showing four residences, a hotel and the flouring mill of John Ochsner.

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