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| Description: | Lawrence Martin and Will Hotchkiss fishing off a pier early in the morning. |
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| Description: | Three sailboats on Lake Winnebago, U50 (Eskimo), U7 and J7. Crew members are on the boats. The water is choppy and the sky is cloudy. In the background are... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
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| Description: | Man driving windsled on frozen Lake Superior. The windsled is an open boat fitted with an engine and rudder. |
| Date: | 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men docking a ferry boat at La Pointe in December. Ferry service closed two days after this photograph was taken. |
| Date: | 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on dock watching the "Penguine" and the "Apostle Island" breaking the ice around the La Pointe dock. |
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| Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
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| Description: | Frozen river shoreline, with boats sitting on the grassy banks in the foreground. Across the icy shoreline are cars parked near the boat loading area, with... |
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| Description: | At Big Muskegan Wind. In a marsh part of a lake, a man in waders is bent over among the reeds. In the background are three people in a boat, with one perso... |
| Date: | 08 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Class E fleet sailboats get underway in the first official test of the preliminary races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland Lakes Yachting Associati... |
| Date: | 08 24 1950 |
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| Description: | "The Albatross IV," a sailboat owned by Terry Lentz of Pewaukee, is shown with its crew during one of the races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland La... |
| Date: | 08 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Class A and Class E sailboats are shown maneuvering to round a buoy in strong wind during one of the races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland Lakes Y... |
| Date: | 01 20 1901 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers at Milwaukee Harbor standing on ice around the Julius Goll Jr. excursion boat. |
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| Description: | Two children pose for a portrait while standing along a shoreline next to a row of cottages. Several rowboats are pulled ashore, and people are on the cott... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the pier landing as seen from the tourist camp site in Devil's Lake State Park. People are strolling on the dock, a boat is docked, w... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The lake steamer "Alice" approaches the Madison dock on Lake Monona. Two boys wearing caps stand at the end of the pier. At the time of this photograph, t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man poses near a wrecked boat. A log house with two lean-to additions is behind him and there is a smaller log building on the left. Snow c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view along the Mississippi River shoreline after a storm. The water is high and there are damaged boats and debris scattered around. In the background me... |
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