Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FORMAT_TYPE of paintings
Filter: Subject of recreation
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
| Date: | 1821 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes. |
| Date: | 1821 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
| Date: | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
| Date: | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A watercolor of a set of archaic Indian deer hunters with their kill. |
| Date: | 10 07 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game. |
| Date: | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Watercolor painting of farm and farmhouse, residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman melt pitch in a pot over an open fire in a forest. The pitch will be used to seal a canoe that they're making. |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Watercolor design for a conservation poster made by a Wisconsin high school student as part of a competition. The poster has an image of pine trees in a me... |
| Date: | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Watercolor painting of boats and sailboats on Lake Mendota, looking towards Maple Bluff, perhaps from Governor's Island or Rocky Roost. |
| Date: | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Description: | This genre work, titled "Spearing Time," was painted in 1999 by Geri Schrab, a self-taught watercolor artist in De Forest, Wisconsin. Schrab was first insp... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Watercolor painting of a hunter walking in tall grass among trees by the Johnson duck shack at old Cherokee Marsh. |
| Date: | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Painting of a man fishing in a stream below a dam. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba... |
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:
