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Book or Pamphlet

Combat between Indian Tribes

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of the Ojibwa, the Sacs, and Foxes battling from canoes on the water.
Print

Snags (Sunken Trees on the Missouri River)

Date: 1832
Description: Steamboat navigating through sunken trees on the Missouri River.
Print

The Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: The Citadel Rock on the Upper Missouri River.
Print

Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri River (view 1).
Print

View of the Stone Walls, on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: View of the Stone Walls on the Upper Missouri River. Includes herd of bighorn sheep.
Drawing

Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
Magazine or Periodical

North Shore of Lake Superior

Date: 04 1892
Description: Drawing of the north shore of Lake Superior with cliffs and seagulls.
Book or Pamphlet

The Falls of St. Anthony

Date: 1884
Description: Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag...
Drawing

Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
Photograph

Gravelly Island

Date: 07 1923
Description: Members of the photographer's family shield their heads with their clothing while walking among grassy hummocks on Gravelly Island. There are many seagulls...
Photograph

Boating

Date: 1912
Description: A launch with men standing on the deck passes close to rocky bluffs as seagulls fly overhead.
Print

Dalles of the Wisconsin "The Jaws"

Date: 
Description: Engraved view of "The Jaws" in the Wisconsin Dells.
Photograph

Towering Rock Formations

Date: 
Description: View of four natural rock towers. There is a person (probably a man) standing on top of the one on the far left.
Photograph

Young Bird

Date: 1910
Description: A young bird in a rock crevice on Rocky Island. The island is on Rainy Lake.
Photograph

Seagulls on an Island

Date: 08 1971
Description: View across water towards two seagulls resting on a rock outcropping of Stockton Island. Trees are growing on the top of the formation.
Postcard

Swallows' Nests

Date: 1939
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Swallows' Nests, Wisconsin Dells. Every summer hundreds of swallows make their homes in holes in the soft sandstone cliff." Rock fo...
Postcard

Swallow's Nests

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Swallow's Nests, Dells of the Wisconsin." Rock formations on the shore of the Wisconsin River with trees growing above. Every summer ...

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