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Photograph

Forest Nursery

Date: 1951
Description: Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery.
Painting

A Cultivated Farm of Michael Ranzer near New Ulm, Minnesota

Date: 1859
Description: Ranzer's prosperous farm was hewn out of the forest rather than the prairie. This was "of course more difficult" and needed hired help to fell and burn the...
Drawing

Farm and Trees

Date: 1852
Description: Rural landscape with farm buildings seen from across a field and framed by trees.
Photograph

C.C. Washburn Homestead

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Two men stand waist-high in the cabbage, pea, and oat fields of the C.C. Washburn homestead, twelve miles southwest of Florence. Wooden houses or outbuildi...
Photograph

Joseph Seipold Pea Field

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: Two men stand in the five-foot tall pea field of Joseph Seipold three miles northeast of Antigo. Another man stands atop a horse-drawn wagon loaded with ha...
Photograph

Elevated View of Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: Elevated view from hill of farmhouse, farm buildings, and fenced yards. People are posing standing near the bottom of the hill behind a fence in the center...
Photograph

Farm Home

Date: 1895
Description: Two women, a man and a child posing on a road adjoining their homestead, with stumpland and a forest behind them.
Postcard

Greetings from Bear Lake

Date: 1967
Description: Aerial view of Bear Lake, with surrounding forests and farms. Caption reads: "Greetings from Bear Lake."
Photograph

Wooded Hillside

Date: 1964
Description: Wooded hillside and distant farm.
Photograph

Run-Down Farm Buildings

Date: 
Description: Elevated view down hill towards a wooden building in the distance. There are haystacks next to the building. There is a forested hill in the background.
Photograph

Evaporating Maple Sap

Date: 04 09 1971
Description: A man is standing just outside of the partially open double doors of a sugar house and loading more logs into the evaporator. Logs, fuelwood, and a chainsa...
Photograph

Kettle Moraine

Date: 1971
Description: Elevated view along a forested hillside, overlooking farm fields, a barn, and a small town in the distance.
Photograph

Aerial View of Forest Lodge Grounds

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of the cow palace and pasture, the boathouse, and the Lake Namakagon shoreline. The main lodge is barely visible among trees. Old highway count...

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