Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: Subject of Work
Filter: Subject of water
Filter: Subject of transportation
Filter: Subject of implements, utensils, etc.
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Two men lifting a net full of fish over the side of a boat. The original caption reads: "Shrimp fleet." |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
| Date: | 1937 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field. |
| Date: | 1962 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
| Date: | 1935 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of International trucks as they perform heavy-duty jobs while working near the Bonneville Dam. |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 05 1909 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a... |
| Date: | |
|---|---|
| Description: | Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar... |
| Date: | 08 1911 |
|---|---|
| Description: | The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake. |
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: