Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Islands
Filter: Subject of persons
| 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: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view over trees toward a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: "Mississippi River at Prescott, Wis." |
| Date: | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Rocky Roost, a cottage, which was located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The cottage was designed and built in 1893 (according to Taliesin Asso... |
| 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: | Wadmalaw Island Citizenship group participants in the midst of a session. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Wadmalaw Island Citizenship group coffee break. Third from the left is Bernice Robinson, a teacher in the first school, former Highlander Folk School stud... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two children waiting for their parents at the Wadmalaw Citizenship School. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Family on Sea Island that was part of the Citizenship group that took place on the island. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group participating in the Citizenship group standing in front of Morning Star Hall, Johns Island. Charleston Evening Post and New Courier image. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A child holding a baby next to a television on Johns Island. Part of the Citizenship group that convened there. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | An African American woman with two children on the porch of a house on Johns Island. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | A group of African American boys wearing hats on Johns 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. |
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: