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Photograph

Plowing the Fields

Date: 
Description: Farmer plowing a field with two horses.
Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wis.

Date: 1873
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River.
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Book or Pamphlet

Acme-Hodges Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Acme Harvester Company featuring an illustration of an owl depicting "Acme-Hodges Wisdom." Acme manufactured the Ho...
Photograph

Women and Children Watch Men Work in Field

Date: 
Description: Children, men with hats, and women with parasols, are watching men work in a field with a horse-drawn plow and other agricultural equipment. A house is in...
Photograph

Iron Bridge across Mississippi

Date: 1875
Description: "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu...
Photograph

Tompkins Square Park

Date: 1968
Description: Flock of birds in snow-covered Tompkins Square Park located in East Village.
Photograph

A Traveler of Country Roads

Date: 1984
Description: Dog running on country road in DeKalb County in the summer.
Photograph

Backyard

Date: 1985
Description: Backyard of the Quinney house on South Third Street in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Pale Horse

Date: 1993
Description: Pale colored horse on a snow-covered farm off Five Points Road in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Bird Nest

Date: 1994
Description: Bird nest on the side of the Quinney house at 345 Rolfe Road.
Photograph

Wren House

Date: 2001
Description: Wren house on a tree at the Quinney farm.
Print

Edward P. Allis Reliance Works

Date: 1900
Description: Main factory with South Foundry in lower left. Lake Michigan is in the background. Later the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
Photograph

House at 1705 Sheridan Drive

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior of the house at 1705 Sheridan Drive and the garage behind it shortly after construction. The house was built by Willard Droster. There is a dog o...
Photograph

Three Men in front of Blacksmith Shop

Date: 1895
Description: Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ...
Photograph

Frank and Delia King's Christmas Card

Date: 1939
Description: A Christmas card in the form of a stained glass window featuring Delia and Frank King as Mary and Joseph. The card reads, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Ye...
Photograph

Exterior of F. Dohmen Company

Date: 1900
Description: The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound between catalog pages. (One o...
Drawing

Birds-Eye Drawing of "Folly Farm"

Date: 
Description: A pen drawing, in the style of a birds-eye map, of Frank and Delia King's estate Folly Farm in Kissimee, Florida.
Photograph

Photographer and Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Date: 07 04 1876
Description: Two men stand by a wagon on which is written "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." The photographer stands on the left side of the view. The flag on the side...
Photograph

Individuals in a Field

Date: 
Description: Two men rest in a field, with other individuals visible in the background. There appears to be a child on a horse on the left, and a group in a horse-drawn...

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