Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Islands
Filter: Type of Photograph
Filter: Subject of outdoor photography
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches. |
| Date: | 09 07 1927 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The stairs and dock at the lighthouse on Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | The entrance to the garden framed by a decorative wooden gate. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Chester Thordarson stands in his garden with a friend near the fish pond, which has a fountain. |
| Date: | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Rocky Roost, located west of Governor's Island, Lake Mendota. Robert Lamp, in 1902, had his friend Frank Lloyd Wright design a cottage to be called "Rocky ... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Family on Sea Island that was part of the Citizenship group that took place on the island. |
| Date: | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Shoreline of Lake Michigan. This is mainly a commercial fishing community, and some of the Lake Michigan ferry boats dock here. A pole with a lifesaving ri... |
| Date: | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from shore of sailboat anchored on the lake. There appears to be an island in the upper left. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | From Jones Island, looking across to a manufacturing area with cranes and large piles of coal or coke? In the lower foreground is a bare hill, with old pil... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Man inspecting fish hung up to dry in a yard on Jones Island. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of bay shoreline, with dwellings along the bank. A few boats are in the river. In the background is a factory with a smokestack and railroad ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a cluster of old dwellings in the center, with broken shacks and rusted cars. In the background are railroad cars, and an industrial area ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A fish shop made of several small, interconnected buildings. Signs for fresh or smoked fish are on several parts of the shop. In the background is a railr... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard and railroads cars on Jones Island. On the right is a large derrick or crane, and in the background are a number of freighte... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men working near large dredge on Jones Island. Large piles of material are on the ground below the dredge. There is a ship on the right. In the distance a... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Signs for Kingsbury Beer and politicians are in the window of a storefront. |
| Date: | 1967 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Nelson sits in a canoe and looks out over the water around the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 1979 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, Dave Obey, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus, walk along a beach with a park ranger during a tour of the Apostle Islands. ... |
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: