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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a North Central Airlines DC-3 airplane flying over the Madison isthmus. Clearly visible are the Wisconsin State Capitol, the 1 West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks through covered railroad tunnel in hill. A sign on a telephone pole on the right reads: "Private Property / Thoroughfare / Keep O... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down main street with storefronts on both sides, with large power lines along the sidewalks stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A panoramic aerial view of the Isthmus taken from a kite. Lake Mendota is to the right in the background with Picnic Point jutting into the lake. The photo... |
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| Description: | Two people on a rustic bridge over Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. |
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| Description: | The sidewheel passenger and freight, "Milwaukee," at Dewey Hill, Grand Haven, Michigan, at the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway depot. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man on a raft throwing a rope. |
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| Description: | Upper Mississippi, view at Riley's Coolie. Four men are on a railroad handcar that is crossing a railroad bridge over the river. |
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| Description: | View looking down at passengers posing on the steamboat "Eolah" on the Wisconsin River shoreline. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a couple sightseeing in a 1965 International Scout pickup pulling an Airstream camper in the Nevada hills. |
| Date: | 05 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent... |
| Date: | 12 01 1962 |
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| Description: | A farm road between fields in late sunlight, looking towards Mounds Creek in the vicinity of CTH F. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International truck making its way through the Salduro Marsh of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover on the Utah-Nevada border. The original caption rea... |
| Date: | 05 05 1931 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Mendota towards Picnic Point, framed by a willow tree, and a rowboat pulled up on the shoreline. |
| Date: | 06 30 1926 |
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| Description: | View across Observatory Drive, looking down towards the Van Hise dormitories: Adams, Tripp, and Carson Gulley Commons. Picnic Point is in the distance on L... |
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| Description: | Devils Island on Lake Superior, outermost of the Apostle Islands group. There appears to be the edge of a boat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes Bascom Hill, Wisconsin Historical Society, Memorial Union and the Armory (Red Gym ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Science Hall, and Bascom Hall on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota i... |
| Date: | 05 05 1897 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc. |
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