Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Deer hunters' camp in Northern Wisconsin. Image includes six hunters and their dogs posed in front of their cabin with hanging deer carcasses. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Hop pickers posing by stands of harvested hops. |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Captain F.A. Bishoff and engineer Dan Cook on board the ferry "Plowboy." |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Three men sitting in front of log building at Big Bay Beach on Madeline Island. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Members of the Frautschi family pose at the Christian Frautschi Furniture Store. From left to right are Alice, Irving, Christian and Arthur Frautschi. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
Date: | 1800 |
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Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water." |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | McCormick family group portrait at Island Lake Camp in Northwestern Wisconsin, owned by Dr. William C. Gray (editor of "The Interior") and the McCormicks. ... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Caption: "Stage driven by William C. Alden stopping in front of Coon Valley store on the route between Viroqua to Muscoda and La Crosse. Alden drove the st... |
Date: | 10 1891 |
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Description: | The wreckage of a head-on collision of two Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains at Tramway. Men stand near and on top of the railroad cars... |
Date: | 09 18 1892 |
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Description: | Four men sit on the balcony of Rocky Roost, the vacation home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The men ar... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | A man is posing in front of the corner entrance to the E.M. Maurer Bookstore. Above the corner entrance is a turret, and a small child is looking out of on... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at age 9 when he was attending the district school at Argyle, Wisconsin. Standing f... |
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