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| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Madison Hospital, 413-415 South Baldwin Street. Also known as the Gill & Boyd Hospital, opened in 1889 and existed for just a few years. |
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| Description: | Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers. |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud. |
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| Description: | Engraving of Edward George Ryan (1810-1880) at the age of 65. He was Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court after the Civil War, and a leading Democr... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, "Sidney," loading passengers at Red Wing. The gangplank is lowered and passengers are on deck and on the landing. Later named Was... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., landing passengers, taken between 1901 and 1910. Crowds are on riverbank and there are buildings in background. A cr... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the sternwheel excursion, J.S., getting ready to leave for Winona. A crowd is watching from the landing. A crane on the fron... |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Sidney, on the Mississippi River at New Orleans. All three decks are full of passengers. Later named "Washington." |
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| Description: | The sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, underway. In the background is the Alton Bridge. Later named Senator. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The cover from the 1926 schedule lists the ports of call for the Goodrich fleet and features a drawing of the "Alabama". |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Pages 1and 2 of the 1926 schedule gives information on when to get tickets or information. Pictured are the steamline's fleet. The Alabama, City of Benton... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Pages 21-22 from the 1926 schedule has three pictures of the Christopher Columbus and advertises its sailing schedule from the South End Michigan Avenue Br... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Cover from Goodrich Steamship Lines schedule, with a picture of a screw-driven passenger/freight vessel against the Chicago skyline and a beach scene in th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page 2 of the sailing schedules gives the sailing times and for the Christopher Columbus and Theodore Roosevelt and other Goodrich ships. Connections to se... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Page 4 from the schedule describes the trip from Chicago, Illinois, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the "Christopher Columbus" or "Theodore Roosevelt". Include... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Cover from schedule. Shows a drawing of the "Manitou". Later named "Isle Royale". |
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