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Downtown Fish Creek

Date: 1910
Description: View from hill towards downtown Fish Creek, with the buildings and ground covered in snow. There is a road in the foreground leading off to the left. The b...
Photograph

Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge construction. View is from Highway Bridge. There are ships on the right side beyond the bridge. The forested shoreline cur...
Photograph

Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge from north side of frozen Sturgeon Bay. The bridge is made of wood (and steel supports???). There is a dock in the foregro...
Photograph

Ship Canal, Facing West from Coastguard Station

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View of the Ship Canal from the Coast Guard station. There are pieces of machinery on the right, and a line of trees on the left. There is snow on the grou...
Photograph

Mooring Basin

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View from snowy shoreline of Mooring Basin at bay end of Ship Canal. The boat moored in the foreground is named "Allie." It is tethered to a post on the sh...
Photograph

Highway Bridge

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: View from snowy shoreline of Highway Bridge, the east approach. The lake is frozen. Just beyond the shoreline a boat is moored at a landing, and an automob...
Map or Atlas

Pleistocene Geology of the Door Peninsula, Wisconsin

Date: 1961
Description: This map shows bays, lakes, and roads. Relief is shown by contours; depths are shown by isolines. Lake Michigan and Lake Winnebago are labeled. An explana...
Photograph

Ice Fishing

Date: 01 2014
Description: View from shoreline on a sunny day of snow-covered, frozen Monona Bay. People in the distance are standing or sitting near ice fishing holes and ice fishin...
Postcard

Sunset View, Door County

Date: 1932
Description: Color postcard view of a brilliant sunset over Green Bay. There is a forested shoreline in the distance. Caption reads: "Sunset View, Door County, Wisconsi...
Postcard

Night Scene at the Boat Docks

Date: 
Description: Twilight view of a steamer at the Ephraim dock. Caption reads: "Night Scene at the Boat Docks, Ephraim, Wis."
Photograph

Willow on Monona Bay

Date: 11 20 2014
Description: The trunk of a willow is arching over the ice ccovering Monona Bay. Rocks partially covered with snow are along the shoreline. The Wisconsin State Capitol ...
Photograph

Tree Trunk with Snow on Monona Bay

Date: 11 20 2014
Description: View looking down along the trunk of a willow tree arching down and resting on the ice covering Monona Bay. There is snow on the tree and the rocks along t...
Photograph

Snowmobiling on Chequamegon Bay

Date: 
Description: View across frozen bay towards a person riding a snowmobile in front of a split rock formation on Chequamegon Bay.
Photograph

Triangle Redevelopment Project in Winter

Date: 
Description: Aerial view of the Greenbush neighborhood in winter partially demolished for the Triangle Redevelopment Project. Monona Bay and Brittingham park are at rig...
Photograph

Winter's End: the Open Bay

Date: 1954
Description: Birch trees in the snow on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Photograph

Squaw Bay

Date: 10 1962
Description: View from shoreline towards a rowboat is pulled up onto the shore of Squaw Bay on Lake Monona. Trees are in the foreground. The sky is overcast and the wat...
Postcard

Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sturgeon Bay, Door County." On reverse: "Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Door County. North Pierhead Light. Winter shows its pretty face on ...
Postcard

Sherwood Point Lighthouse

Date: 1963
Description: Text on front reads: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse, Door County, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Sherwood Point Lighthouse is near Potawatomi State Park, north of St...
Postcard

The Seamen's Memorial Statue

Date: 1978
Description: Text on reverse reads: "The Seamen's Memorial Statue, Barker's Island, Superior, WI. Facing the harbor holding a massive cable is the 10 foot tall Seamen's...
Postcard

Souvenir Folder of Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: Cover title of souvenir folder reads: "Souvenir folder of Superior, Wisconsin 17 Natural Color Views. Caption for this image reads: "Nite View of New $21,0...

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