click zoom to display a high-res image
Publication Information
Physical Description
Collection Information
Copyright Information
W012EKG
WHi 146965
Image
Digital Collections
Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing Collections
The vast majority of the items in our collections are not online. The Society owns thousands of archival collections viewable in our Archives reading room. To view and conduct research in our collections, visit us in person.
Equipment at Trout Lake Station
1929
Dr. E.A. Birge's equipment at his Trout Lake Station laboratory.
Bacteriology Laboratory
1935
View looking down slope towards the Bacteriology Laboratory on the shore of Trout Lake. Trees are around the small, wood sided building, and the lake is in the background.
Trout Lake
1939
View across water towards the shoreline of Trout Lake. There is a thin, sandy beach, and trees all along the curved shoreline.
Dr. Birge at Trout Lake
1930
Caption reads: "Dr. Birge, probably at Trout Lake." He is sitting in a car. There is a boat covered by a tarp on a trailer behind the car. A lake is in the background.
Ice Push
1925
View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the lake ice cover during the winter."
Ice Push
1925
View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the lake ice cover during the winter."
