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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W... |
| Date: | 08 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the completed power house and dam, looking east at the north, or upstream, side of the structure. On the far shore, the site of the gravel... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | A color-coded map of the Lake Superior region, including portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. |
| Date: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | A view, from the west, of the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. Gravel from the quarry was used in concrete for the construction of the power plant and dam. |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph of Madison's west side looking northeast along Speedway Road. Visible are Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemeteries, West High School, Hoyt... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of west side, looking south along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Lake Wingra, Forest Hill and Resurrection Cemetery, Hoyt Park. Maj... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial photograph looking northwest across the reservoir on Glenway Street. Featured are Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection Cemetery. Major streets are Fr... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking north along Glenway Street. Visible are the reservoir, Hoyt and Quarry Parks, Resurrection and Forest Hill Cemeteries, Rentschler Greenhouses, Fore... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking southeast across Speedway Road. Visible are the reservoir on Glenway Street, Hoyt Park, Resurrection and Forest Hill cemeteries, Glenway Golf cours... |
| Date: | 02 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Looking east along Regent Street with snow on the ground. Visible are Lake Wingra, Monona Bay, railroad causeway across Monona, Lake Mendota, Hoyt Park, We... |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest across Lake Mendota and the isthmus from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of high water on the Wisconsin River from a bluff on the west bank. The photograph is undated and does not indicate if it was taken prior to ... |
| Date: | 07 1876 |
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| Description: | A camping party rests at the top of a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park. |
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| Description: | Drawing of the mouth of the Wisconsin River from a scenic overlook depicting a steamboat in the distance. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Da... |
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| Description: | Drawing of St. Paul, Minnesota, depicting a small town on a hillside overlooking the Mississippi River. A Native American sits on a log in the foreground. ... |
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| Description: | Drawing of Savannah, Illinois, depicting a small town along the shore of the Mississippi River. There is a steamboat in the foreground. Print is part of a ... |
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| Description: | Five women and a child walk across a plank bridge to the spring at Rock Spring Park. The woman third from the left is Laura Jones. |
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| Description: | Four young men wade in the water at the base of a rock, one holding a fishing pole. The young men could possibly be the Taylor boys catching minnows in Per... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Looking across water and through the locks to a shoreline with a large hill in the background. A building is on the left, a wall and pilings are in the wat... |
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