Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Coats
Filter: Subject of rivers
| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
|---|---|
| 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: | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Horse-drawn carriage stuck in a rut on a muddy road near the Ohio River in Floyd County, Indiana. One man is holding the horse while another attempts to di... |
| Date: | 1975 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Woman in a boat showing a fish she has just caught on the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1832 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Travellers setting up camp along the Missouri River. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Spearing sturgeon at the dam in Kilbourn. There is a man with a sturgeon on a spear in the foreground, and another man with a spear is in the background. A... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Ashley Bennett and three friends in a homemade sailboat. This was captioned: "Going to Join the Navy." |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger train on Kilbourn railroad bridge. "Apollo No. 1" steamboat below bridge, with musicians in bow. Various launch b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
| Date: | 04 18 1935 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Miss Pyre standing next to a Ford V-8 coupe near a bridge at Tenney Park. A building with a tower is in the background, perhaps the Hausmann Brewing Compan... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across field towards the railroad bridge, seen with the construction almost completed. A man is standing in the middle of the bridge, and two or three... |
| Date: | 1964 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Foreign correspondent, Russell Jones, on assignement. Jones worked for ABC News, and is being filmed for an evening news segment on political events in Bud... |
| Date: | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Southwest view of a covered bridge over Cedar Creek, with a man walking in the snow nearby. |
| Date: | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View across road towards two men standing facing each other just outside the front entrance to Glen and Star's Mill, near a brewery. There is snow on the g... |
| Date: | 1673 |
|---|---|
| Description: | P. Marquette en Joliet, gedan in't jaar 1673. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra... |
| Date: | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Group of four men and a girl standing on the opposite shoreline by the falls, with probably the Charter Oak Mill on the right on Squaw Creek. |
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:
