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| Date: | 11 26 1903 |
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| Description: | Alfred Holt is snowshoeing in the backyard of the Holt family home in Oconto. A wood fence and neighboring homes are in the background. Caption reads: "Alf... |
| Date: | 11 26 1903 |
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| Description: | Smiling at the camera, daughter Eleanor Holt is tobogganing with her father W.A. Holt in the backyard of the Holt family home. Aunt Nell is standing behind... |
| Date: | 12 1909 |
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| Description: | Children are playing winter sports, including sledding and snowshoeing, in the backyard. The slide and sleds are made of wood. The snowshoers are holding h... |
| Date: | 12 1909 |
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| Description: | On a snowy day, Alfred Holt is leaping from the gate post. Several children are watching him. A girl, wearing a floppy winter hat, is looking at the camera... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of two men snowshoeing along a flowing stream near Trout Lake. |
| Date: | 02 29 1916 |
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| Description: | Atop the winter slide, Lillian Wheeler is positioning herself on the sled. Her mother Anna Holt Wheeler is watching her, and a third person is standing beh... |
| Date: | 02 29 1916 |
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| Description: | Toddler Lillian Wheeler is tobogganing down the snowy chute with her mother Anna Holt Wheeler, and a third person is sitting behind Anna. There is a house ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Snowmobiles and drivers lining up before the start of a United States Snowmobile Association sanctioned race. Miller Brewing was a sponsor for the event. |
| Date: | 02 1969 |
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| Description: | View downhill towards three skiers standing on the left surveying the run before heading down the slope. More skiers are riding the ski lift overhead. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Five children in snow tubes are returning to the top of the hill by hanging onto the tow rope. |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of children and adults is on the wooden toboggan slide in the backyard of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. One person on the top platform is holding a ... |
| Date: | 02 06 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the backyard toboggan slide from the second floor of the Lucy and W.A. Holt home. Several people are in the snow at the bottom of the wooden slide. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Hardscrabble Ski Area...Rice Lake, Wis." Text on reverse, "Hardscrabble, Inc. Rice Lake, Wis. The Cadillac of ski areas . . . ask the... |
| Date: | 12 23 1912 |
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| Description: | Christmas postcard of a child on a toboggan. She is wearing a red coat and white mittens, also a white hat with a tassel. Her hair is flying in the wind. T... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "World's First Snowmobile, Sayner, Wisconsin. Invented in 1924 by Carl Eliason of Sayner (pictured). This machine is liquid cooled, ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ski Tow on Rib Mountain, Wausau, Wis." On reverse: "Rib Mountain, just outside of Wausau, is a Winter Paradise boasting, among other ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Wausau, Wisconsin, 'Winter Sports Capital of the Midwest.'" On reverse: "Renowned throughout the midwestern states as the center of w... |
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