Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 30

Photograph

Myrland's Sky Lodge

Date: 
Description: Myrland's Sky Lodge, a vacation resort near Montello that boasted a private landing strip for pilots with small planes. The Piper Vagabond in the foregroun...
Photograph

St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
Photograph

Montello House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the front of the Montello House hotel.
Map or Atlas

Rural Electrification Survey Map

Date: 
Description: Rural electrification survey map of Marquette county in Westfield township.
Photograph

Montello Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1903
Description: Three rural mail carriers pose with their horses and buggies in front of the Montello Post Office. Postmaster (Dr.) Edward A. Bass stands in the backgroun...
Photograph

Montello Granite Quarry

Date: 1908
Description: A view of the Montello granite quarry with Montello Lake in the background. The sign in the foreground reads, "J.T. Barrett Pays Highest Prices for Furs, M...
Photograph

Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w...
Photograph

Westfiled Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Located at 627 Main Street, Theo Bertin built this small house-and-canopy station hoping to transform travelers driving north along old Highway 51 into cus...
Photograph

Good Old Days Resort — Exterior

Date: 05 18 2007
Description: "This Friday we travel 64 miles (one way) to Good Old Days Resort on Puckaway Lake, W913 West Northshore Drive, Montello."
Photograph

Good Old Days Resort — Interior

Date: 05 18 2007
Description: "Sarah was our waitress when we visited Good Old Days on Puckaway Lake near Montello." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, John Bodden, Shirley Widm...
Photograph

Pheasant Inn on Mason Lake

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard view across water towards the Pheasant Inn on Lake Mason. Buildings are along the shoreline behind large trees. Two people are in a r...
Photograph

Store at Rustic Knoll

Date: 1930
Description: The log cabin store where a woman poses in the service window, and a man and a woman poses outdoors. There is a car parked in the road. The store advertise...
Photograph

Housekeeping Cottages at Cottage Grove Resort on Mason Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Two women pose outside their lakefront cabin.
Photograph

Hotel Iris

Date: 1926
Description: View across road of the Hotel Iris, with a large group of men and boys posed in the yard, on the screened-in porch, and near a delivery van parked on the l...
Postcard

Crystal Lake Resort

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view from hill through trees and over a bridge toward the Crystal Lake Resort on the opposite shoreline. There are two women wearing ...
Photograph

Bathing Beauty Contest

Date: 06 19 1949
Description: Elevated view of crowd at E.H. Myrland's Farm's Sky Lodge at the bathing beauty contest at the dedication of a new swimming pool at the resort which opened...
Postcard

Montello Granite Works

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view looking west over the Montello Granite Company's works framed by an irregular mask. Two wooden derricks and irregular blocks of granite are i...
Postcard

Griffin's Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: View across water towards a rustic wooden walking bridge which is reflected in the water of the Montello River. There is a utility pole with wires in the b...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1906
Description: The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug...
Photograph

Group at the Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: Two women and three girls posing in front of the Hotel on the Hill. Blanche Richter is seated at left and holds a cat on her lap. The woman standing next t...

Have Questions?

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: