Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-7 of 7

Photograph

New Year's Trip to Ashland

Date: 1920
Description: Group of people standing on board a passenger ferry bound for a New Year's trip to Ashland.
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1944
Description: Holiday card with a nautical theme. An open porthole is centered inside a border made of rope with knots in the corners. An anchor is tied to the rope end....
Print

Winter Morning at Sister Bay

Date: 1949
Description: Holiday card of the Sister Bay lakeshore. Three figures are on the shore. Two boathouses, a covered boat, a pier, and two upright boats are in the backgrou...
Print

May True Love Light Your Christmas Path

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with the image of a bell. Inside is a scene of a lake with a cottage on the shore. There is a boat on the lake and a church on the opposite sh...
Print

To My Valentine

Date: 1911
Description: Valentine's Day card made of four pieces. The main piece is of a large shell boat pulled by two swans on a pond filled with water lilies. A cutout of a lar...
Photograph

Tenney Park Locks Activity

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above t...
Photograph

Tenney Park Locks Activity

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Boaters and fishermen on the Yahara River moving into Lake Mendota just after the water reached exit level at the Tenney Park lock.

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: