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Photograph

Playing with a Wooden Horse

Date: 03 1910
Description: Anna Fox and Rosella as children playing with and on a sledge “drawn” by a wooden horse named Caesar.
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

Date: 
Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
Photograph

Log Loading

Date: 1886
Description: Men loading logs at D.J. Arpin's Crooked Reef camp.
Photograph

Horse-drawn Hearse in the Snow

Date: 1910
Description: Martin Keefe, owner of the livery stable, drives a horse-drawn hearse, which has sled runners. The hearse was for the funeral of Mrs. Tom Hill. The buildin...
Photograph

Farmer's Course, Street View

Date: 1910
Description: View of horse-drawn carriages and sleds racing down a snowy street lines with storefronts. A large crowd is in the distance.
Postcard

Horse-Drawn Logging Sled

Date: 1916
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of a horse-drawn sled loaded with logs coming out of the woods. One or two men are driving the sled, and a man is wal...
Photograph

Loggers Posing with Team of Horses and Sled

Date: 1889
Description: Outdoor group portrait of ten men standing behind a team of two horses in the snow. Standing directly behind the horses in front of the sled loaded with lo...
Postcard

Harold McCormick and Daughters

Date: 1914
Description: Harold McCormick and his two young daughters pose on a sled/sledge in front of a painted background.
Photograph

Door County Logging

Date: 
Description: Winter logging operations in Door County. Men are posing on a sled pulled by horses, and piles of logs are on either side of an icy road.
Photograph

Team of Horses and Oxen in Woods with Men

Date: 
Description: Team of horses and a team of oxen working in the woods in snow. Two men are standing on a load of logs on the right, probably on a horse-drawn sled. The ox...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

Pulling Contest at Steam Engine Days

Date: 08 21 1971
Description: Rear view a man standing on a weighted sled holding the reigns of two horses. The horses are attempting to pull the weight forward on loose dirt. Five men ...
Photograph

Arms Children at Tenney Park

Date: 1965
Description: Some of the children of Lewis Arms (and possibly their friends) ice skating and riding on sleds on the ice at Tenney Park in the winter.
Photograph

Sledding

Date: 12 1923
Description: Barbara and Herbert Edmund, the two older children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, posing with their sleds at the top of a wooden slide in the ba...
Photograph

Tobogganing

Date: 1924
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder is pulling his two sons, Herbert Edmund, center, and Philip George, left, on a toboggan in a snowy, rolling landscape. The two boys ar...
Photograph

Ready to Go

Date: 1926
Description: Philip George Brumder, youngest child of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, is smiling broadly while posing sitting on a sled, at the top of a slide in...
Photograph

Logging

Date: 1900
Description: A copy of an older photograph of a logging scene. In the foreground a man is holding the reins of a pair of horses, another man is standing beside him; beh...
Print

Minocqua Train Station

Date: 
Description: Greeting card with a winter view of the Minocqua railroad station. A child is pulling another child on a sled through the snow, and two people are meeting ...
Drawing

Steam Ice Car

Date: 1859
Description: Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, the Lady Franklin operating on a frozen river. Male passengers and crew members are standing on t...
Drawing

Ice Locomotive Pulled by Anchor

Date: 1859
Description: Engraved drawing of Norman Wiard's ice locomotive, Lady Franklin being pulled from water onto ice using its anchor. The vessel was built, but never ...

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