Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 23

Photograph

Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph view of the Whiting House with its large harbor and boats. Whiting House is a four-story wood frame Second Empire style hotel standing on the l...
Photograph

Dells Landing

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the Dells boat landing building, with people standing on the balcony. There is a steamboat near the dock on the river below.
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Photograph

P&H 5-Ton Monorail Hoist Loading Lumber onto Barge

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi...
Photograph

Vacationers on a Resort Beach

Date: 
Description: View along shoreline toward people relaxing on a beach lined with vacation houses. Groups of men and women are standing or sitting, some wearing street clo...
Photograph

Whip-Poor-Will Camp

Date: 1937
Description: Cedar shake and log cabin near lakeshore with boats. There is a man in a motorboat along the shore.
Photograph

Housekeeping Cottages at Cottage Grove Resort on Mason Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin.
Photograph

Lyndale Bay Resort

Date: 1935
Description: View from water of men fishing from boats along lakeshore in front of three cabins on Upper Eau Claire Lake.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 
Description: A blurred image of a man as he is walking across the unpaved street which goes down to the Mississippi River. The Bay State House and more storefronts are ...
Photograph

Group at Detroit Harbor

Date: 07 1924
Description: A man stands with a group of nine women posed in front of a small commercial building. A sign in the shape of a tire advertises "Goodyear Service Station."...
Photograph

Skiers

Date: 01 1928
Description: Winter scene with Ferdinand Hotz, holding a cigarette, posing on skis. His wife, Clothilde, stands on the left with a long walking stick; daughter Helen (L...
Photograph

Dr. Gordon's Cottage

Date: 1915
Description: View across rocky shoreline of Dr. Gordon standing in front of his cottage on the rocky North Bay shore. The cottage is partially obscured in a dense stand...
Photograph

The Maunesha — Scene on Crawfish River

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of the river with trees on the left. On the right, two young boys are fishing from a rowboat in the river near a landing at the back of a thr...
Photograph

Scene at Weigands Bay

Date: 1925
Description: View from shoreline towards cottage at Weigands Bay, Lake Wisconsin. A pier and several small boats are along the shore, with a man posed sitting in a rowb...
Print

Sod-Breakers Wood Engraving

Date: 1840
Description: Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline.
Photograph

Ice Storm Aftermath

Date: 1922
Description: A man walks through debris along a metal railing at Cottonwood Villa after an ice storm. The lake, with houses and trees along the shoreline are in the bac...
Photograph

The Whiting House

Date: 1880
Description: View from water over boats towards the four-story wood frame Second Empire style Whiting House Hotel standing on the lake shore at Lake Geneva. Several set...
Postcard

Harnsward Lodge, Little Cedar Lake

Date: 
Description: View across lake towards Harnsward Lodge, with a group of people in bathing suits sitting on the landing of the boathouse. Caption reads: "Harnsward Lodge,...
Historical Object

Album Page with Cousins

Date: 1903
Description: An album page comprises five photographic prints and a watercolor painting of a shooting star (Dodecatheon) flower. The photograph at lower right was taken...
Photograph

Sandy Beach Resort

Date: 
Description: View across water towards a section of Sandy Beach Resort. There are people on the lawn on the left next to buildings. Two women are talking on a porch in ...

Have Questions?

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: