Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Clothing and dress
Filter: Subject of neighborhoods
Filter: Subject of water
| Date: | 1877 |
|---|---|
| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 08 09 1936 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Dr. Frederick Davis residence, 6048 S. Highlands Avenue, called Edenfred, with a swimming pool with two people and a dog. |
| Date: | 05 19 1933 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of Langdon Street during flood from rain. A man is standing ankle deep in water. |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Onlookers on slope of B.B. Clarke Beach looking out to the lake to watch a swim meet. |
| Date: | 04 01 1955 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Don Woody, catcher, and Dave Baskerville, batter, members of the West High School baseball team. There is a lake in the background. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | University of Wisconsin summer session students gather at Merrill Springs on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Thirty-two winners of individual championships at the annual city municipal swimming meet at B.B. Clarke Beach. |
| Date: | 06 18 1945 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four people fishing from the Westport bridge. Six people have lost their lives within the past eight weeks at this bridge. |
| Date: | 07 03 1946 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from B.B. Clarke beach of swimmers on a raft in Lake Monona ready to start a swimming race with people in the foreground watching from the shore. Race... |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Severely flooded neighborhood. Two men are looking at the flood from a back porch. |
| Date: | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of the Spooner residence on the south corner of Wilson and Carroll Streets, with the lake in the background. This was the home of John C., Phil H., an... |
| Date: | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Looking down street toward Lake Michigan, which is visible at the end of the road. The dirt street is lined with trees and houses. On the right stands a... |
| Date: | 09 10 1948 |
|---|---|
| Description: | David Bickel, 414 Clemons Avenue, fishing on the shore of Tenney Park lagoon. |
| Date: | 11 23 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across river of a large crowd of people on a sledding hill, and also gathered around a shelter building. Houses are in the background atop the hill. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A river has overflown its banks and is flooding a road on a bridge. Some men are on the bridge are using sticks to move ice floes. Crowds of people are wa... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ice chunks floating on the water near houses. People are standing watching nearby. |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Members of the Philgas softball team watching play during a Mendota League game in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
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: