Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-11 of 11

Photograph

Emerson Bros. Sawmill

Date: 1908
Description: Emerson Brothers Sawmill with large piles of cut trees in the foreground.
Photograph

Logging Camp

Date: 
Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...
Print

M.H. Wheeler Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ...
Document

Minocqua Lumber Company Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Minocqua Lumber Company, with a footer of two houses near the water's edge with a forest in the background that extends along the left-ha...
Photograph

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Billets

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow-covered logs of billets of the 310th U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Arkhangelsk, Russia surrounded by pine trees. There are pine boughs...
Photograph

Group of Children at Camp Number 5

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of children sitting on a stack of logs. One of the children is holding a cat. Taken at Colony, Camp Number 5. Cabins are in the background. ...
Photograph

Lumber Pile

Date: 1911
Description: Stack of logs with the caption "Piles to be used for extending R.R. to dam site."
Photograph

Arville Schaleben Standing Near Construction

Date: 07 1935
Description: Arville Schaleben, with a camera case strung over his shoulders and a mosquito net on his hat is standing near workers who are constructing a log building....
Photograph

West Side of Slave Cabin — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: View towards side of slave log cabin which has a peaked roof. A ladder is set up for access to the roof. Scaffolding is on the left and right ends of the b...
Photograph

Cabin Upstairs — Walnut Grove

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Interior view of log cabin upstairs. A small fireplace is on the far wall at the end of the cabin, and the peaked roof of beams and wood is exposed. Lumber...
Photograph

Slave Cabin — Walnut Grove

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: View of side of slave cabin with a small window. Steps are on the end of the building on the left. An exterior stone chimney is on the end of the cabin on ...

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: