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Description: | Immigrants being detained at Ellis Island. Three boys lay on the ground together. |
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Description: | Elevated view from railing of immigrants boarding a ferry to depart Ellis Island. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Ole Christinson, Dick Hanson, Fred Hanson, and Herman Johnson, Sr., onboard sailboat "Louis Moe" along the shore of Sand Island. |
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Description: | Two men standing in wooden rowboat along shore of Madeline Island. There are sailboats in the background. Behind them is a large rock just off the shoreli... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Sailboat Lizzie W. at the Mission Dock. Captain Daniel Russell Angus, in the white sleeves, is at the tiller. The boat was named after Elizabeth Woo... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Group of people on sailboat "Alpha" at dock on Madeline Island. Captain Daniel Angus is at the tiller. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Looking down La Pointe's main street on Madeline Island. A man is walking on the board sidewalk on the left, and another person is driving a horse-drawn ve... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | George F. Thomas is holding a child and standing next to Edward F. Hansen in front of Treaty Hall in La Pointe on Madeline Island. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Island, possibly during a period of renovation. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Howard Russell standing next to his dog team pulling the "Traino." Russell and the team are ready to leave Madeline Island with the U.S. Mail. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Pic Island on the north shore of Lake Superior. |
Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
Date: | 03 07 1912 |
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Description: | Students of the Curtiss School of Aviation on North Island moving a plane into position for a lesson. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Photo opportunity day at the Glenn Curtiss School of Aviation on North Island in San Diego Harbor. The man in the lower left corner is thought to be Glenn ... |
Date: | 05 1912 |
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Description: | The 1912 class at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School on North Island, near San Diego. Milwaukee's John Kaminski (in white shirt and tie) is second from the ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Hangars of the Curtiss Aviation School and the San Diego Aero Club on North Island in San Diego Harbor. Glenn Curtiss himself is thought to be the individu... |
Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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Description: | General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin, after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Hon... |
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